Divine Might Revealed

Divine Might on Full Display

Jiang Feng had seen Su Di make his move long ago. His divine sense allowed him to see everything around him clearly.

"Hmph. A sneak attack, taking advantage of someone in danger!" Jiang Feng snorted coldly.

This Su Di looked extraordinary on the surface, with an aloof, high-and-mighty air, but in truth, he was actually such a petty, contemptible wretch.

"As expected of an expert with half a foot in the Earth Martial Realm." Jiang Feng saw through Su Di's cultivation at a glance.

Given time, Su Di would certainly become one of the outstanding figures of the Earth Martial Realm.

Unfortunately, today he was destined to fall here.

Su Di, as the vice commander of the city guard who dealt with Magic Beasts year-round, believed that defeating an opponent and surviving was the greatest victory. So to him, even if Jiang Feng's cultivation was inferior to his, he would still seize the opening without hesitation and take his life. He did not think this was shameful at all!

As his body drifted down from the pavilion, his wrist flicked, and a coldly gleaming longsword shot out from his sleeve, going straight for Jiang Feng's back.

"How shameless!"

"Despicable wretch!"

However, Su Di ignored everyone outright. The longsword in his hand showed no mercy, and he was determined to kill Jiang Feng on the spot.

"Arrogant brat, die!" Su Di roared, his longsword already within inches of Jiang Feng.

"He can't dodge!"

"No matter how capable Jiang Feng is, he can't dodge this sword!"

Everyone silently felt sorry for Jiang Feng.

However, at that very moment, an unbelievable scene occurred!

Su Di, who should have stabbed Jiang Feng with his sword, was actually sent flying backward!

That was right. Su Di flew backward, with a dark, black spear still lodged in his chest. Nearly half the spear had pierced into Su Di's chest, carrying him as it flew toward the pavilion.

"Rumble..."

With a deafening crash, Su Di's body smashed through the pavilion railing, and then his entire person was nailed to a pillar by the spear—

All life gone!

That was right. Su Di was dead!

In a single exchange—no, not even a single exchange, half an exchange—Su Di had actually died!

Everyone stared at Jiang Feng in disbelief. His hands were clasped behind his back as he raised his head and looked up at the pavilion, though no one knew whether he was looking at the utterly lifeless Su Di, or at Nie Hu!

"Heavens! Su Di launched a sneak attack on Jiang Feng after he'd fought for so long and was exhausted, yet Jiang Feng stabbed him to death with one spear instead!"

"Su Di, who had half a foot in the Earth Martial Realm, actually couldn't even block one spear from Jiang Feng."

"When Jiang Feng fought Yuchi Hong earlier, could he have been hiding his strength?"

"What level of cultivation has Jiang Feng reached?"

"Could he already possess cultivation in the Earth Martial Realm?"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Jiang Feng had originally wanted to use Su Di to temper his techniques, but Su Di's actions truly filled him with contempt. That was why, the moment he made a move, he directly took Su Di's life.

As for his cultivation...

Before coming out of seclusion, he had already stepped into the Earth Martial Realm. He had only used seven days to cultivate the second level of the Golden Body of the Wisdom King to completion.

Back then, Emperor Longxiang had spent a full seventy years before accomplishing it. As for him, because the strength of his soul was far beyond ordinary, he had forced his way to success within seven days.

After that, he had used another day to break through from the Black Martial Realm to the Earth Martial Realm. To him, this was not difficult at all. Between the Black Martial Realm and the Earth Martial Realm, it was nothing more than comprehension and understanding of energy force, and to him, that was no difficulty whatsoever.

The current him already possessed first-level Earth Martial Realm cultivation. With every raise of his hand and step of his foot, his energy force could be released outward to injure people from afar. Let alone one Su Di—even two or three of him could be handled with a casual grasp.

Between the Earth Martial Realm and the Black Martial Realm, the difference was not merely the size of one's strength!

Up on the pavilion, Nie Hu's face was ashen!

Su Di had actually failed to withstand even one move from Jiang Feng!!

At this moment, Nie Hu already knew what his own end would be.

In the center of the square, Xiang Pang was first shocked speechless, then he burst into loud laughter. "Nie dog, wash your neck clean and await death!"

He understood now. No wonder Jiang Feng had dared to come save him. It turned out he had already had victory held firmly in his chest!

The onlookers cried out in shock one after another. At this moment, they also understood that Nie Hu's momentum was gone, and he was doomed to die. Originally, because they feared Nie Hu, they had not dared openly support Jiang Feng, but now that Jiang Feng had displayed heaven-defying strength, they no longer needed to worry.

"Jiang Feng..."

The shouts rose and fell, wave after wave, each one higher than the last.

"Guard soldiers, hear my order! Kill him for me, kill him!" Up on the pavilion, Nie Hu screamed hysterically, issuing orders to the hundred-plus remaining guard soldiers in the square.

However, no one paid him any attention at all.

The soldiers looked at one another, then one after another threw down the long spears in their hands and turned to walk into the crowd, making their stance clear.

"You..." Nie Hu waved his sleeves, berating them wildly. "I am the town chief and captain! You dare defy orders? You all must die, all of you must die!"

Jiang Feng raised his head and looked at the already-mad Nie Hu, then slowly spoke. "Nie Hu, it's your turn."

Nie Hu stared at Jiang Feng with eyes bulging and shot through with burst blood vessels. "Jiang Feng, what the hell do you think you are? You're nothing but a beggar who begged for scraps. What right do you have? What right?!"

At this moment, he was already nearing the edge of collapse.

"Hang yourself, and I'll leave your corpse intact!" Jiang Feng said calmly.

Nie Hu suddenly jolted awake and stared straight at Jiang Feng. Then he let out a crazed roar. "I'll fight you to the death!"

Immediately afterward, he leapt down from the pavilion, pointed his longsword, and came straight for Jiang Feng.

"Ah, he's gone mad. A dignified town chief of his generation has actually ended up like this."

"Exactly. Who told him to do so many wicked things?"

"Jiang Feng originally had no intention of making things hard for him, but he just had to provoke Jiang Feng himself. Now look—he can't even keep his life."

"That's right. With the situation as it is now, who can stop Jiang Feng?"

"He brought it on himself. This is all his own doing. If he hadn't killed Zhuang Yan, perhaps Jiang Feng still wouldn't have taken his life."

Nie Hu held his longsword and attacked Jiang Feng wildly. He would never sit still and wait for death!

Nie Hu had been an expert swordsman to begin with. He had taught a daughter, Nie Xiaoyue, who at the mere age of fourteen could unleash sword force, so his own swordsmanship was naturally extraordinary as well.

At this moment, even though he was already close to the edge of collapse, that sword force was still unleashed with ease, enveloping Jiang Feng.

Moreover, his sword force had already matured greatly, as if it could give birth to the deeper level of sword intent at any moment.

Sword intent: the sword moved with intent, and intent moved with the heart. It was an even higher realm. To comprehend a realm approaching "intent" while in the Black Martial Realm—one could only say that Nie Hu's attainments in swordsmanship were also extraordinary.

If Nie Hu could truly unleash sword intent, Jiang Feng might really not be able to take him lightly.

But in the end, Nie Hu had failed to comprehend sword intent. With Jiang Feng's current cultivation, ordinary sword force posed no threat to him at all. Those sword-force sword-shadows had only just drawn near when they were shredded by the energy he released, utterly harmless.

However, Jiang Feng was in no hurry to take Nie Hu's life.

Taking a man's life while he was insane was clearly far less heart-piercing than taking it when he was calm.

He wanted to wait until Nie Hu had completely calmed down, then let him die in despair, remorse, and regret!

Jiang Feng stood where he was, not moving an inch. Energy surged out of his body, easily dissolving Nie Hu's sword force, while the long spear in his hand always managed to deflect Nie Hu's longsword at the critical moment.

Nie Hu finished executing an entire set of sword techniques, only to discover that Jiang Feng was completely unharmed. In an instant, he sobered up—

What he was doing now was no different from a mayfly trying to shake a tree!

"Ding..." The longsword in Nie Hu's hand fell to the ground, and his entire body slumped onto the floor.

At this moment, his disheveled hair hung down, making him look like a homeless cur. Where was there even the slightest trace of his former aura as town chief? That brocade town-chief robe only made him look like a clown leaping on a beam.

"Kill him!" someone in the crowd shouted.

"Yes, kill him!"

During the years Nie Hu had served as town chief, he had bullied others with his power, monopolized many trades, and tyrannized the marketplace. Though he could not be said to have committed every evil under the sun, he was not far off, so he had long since lost the hearts of the townspeople. If not for his extraordinary strength, someone would likely have stood up against him long ago.

Today, Jiang Feng had defeated him in one stroke, and the resentment in everyone's hearts erupted. Each and every one of them wanted nothing more than to kill him and be satisfied.

Of course, even without these people stirring things up, Jiang Feng would absolutely not leave Nie Hu alive.

However, just as Jiang Feng was about to make his move, a voice suddenly rang out from beyond the crowd.

"Jiang Feng, you mustn't kill him!"

Everyone followed the voice and looked over, only to see that the Dragon Tower Master had already arrived.

"Jiang Feng, Nie Hu cannot be killed. If you kill him, you will incur the Qi Family's frenzied retaliation. Moreover, Nie Xiaoyue has already entered Huilong Academy and is quite highly valued there. One day, her status will surely be extraordinary. If you kill her father, then one day she will definitely kill you in return..."

"So what?" Jiang Feng interrupted the Dragon Tower Master, his expression solemn. "As long as she has the ability, I, Jiang Feng, will naturally carry my head to meet her. If she doesn't have that ability, then I, Jiang Feng, won't mind adding another life to my hands!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Feng waved his right hand. Energy rose and fell, and Nie Hu's head hit the ground!