Relentless Pressure

Right before Jiang Feng's eyes, Scarlet Female Yaksha struck and killed an inner disciple.

In the Blackstone Mountain Range, core disciples bore no responsibility for killing inner disciples.

Clearly, this inner disciple had misjudged the situation.

He had assumed that, given Jiang Feng's status, Scarlet Female Yaksha would surely have some reservations and would not dare act rashly.

That was why he had wanted to seize this chance to curry favor with Jiang Feng and speak up for him.

Yet he had not expected that Scarlet Female Yaksha did indeed have reservations—but only regarding Jiang Feng.

As for the other inner disciples, she would still kill them whenever she pleased!

Already having suffered a small hidden loss in their exchange of words and harboring some resentment, Scarlet Female Yaksha killed this inner disciple without the slightest hesitation.

Of course, aside from venting her anger, she also intended to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys—and to give Jiang Feng a show of force.

Seeing this, the other inner disciples came to their senses and immediately retreated.

Jiang Feng knew that if he said nothing under these circumstances, he would never be able to hold his head high in the Blackstone Mountain Range again.

After all, a core disciple had killed an inner disciple who had spoken for him right in front of him, a personal disciple. If he did not seek justice for that disciple, no one would think highly of him as a personal disciple in the future, much less dare befriend him.

"Scarlet, what do you mean by this?" Jiang Feng roared.

Scarlet Female Yaksha snorted. "I merely killed a little fool with too much to say. Why must Junior Brother fly into such a rage?"

"Junior Brother, you should answer me instead: will you give me those