Yu Tianheng? One Punch Is All It Takes!

Ye Feng tilted his head, and the flames stretched into a long, slender golden line in midair.

"I'm standing right here. Why don't you try making me kneel?"

Yu Tianheng's face turned livid, his lips trembling twice before he finally squeezed out, "You... who exactly are you?"

"Me?" Ye Feng grinned, withdrew the flames, and clapped his hands. "I'm just passing by. Weren't you acting pretty arrogant just now? What's wrong, not so arrogant anymore?"

From the crowd of onlookers, someone suddenly shouted, "Karma Fire Phoenix! He's Karma Fire Phoenix!"

In an instant, the entire scene erupted.

"Karma Fire Phoenix?! That ruthless guy with fifty consecutive victories?!"

"Damn, I actually got to see him in person today!"

"No wonder he has two purple and two black Soul Rings. Isn't this guy a freaking monster?!"

"Yu Tianheng really kicked an iron plate this time!"

Listening to the discussions around him, Yu Tianheng's face shifted between green and white. His fists clenched with cracking sounds, but in the end, he still did not dare make a move.

Though he was usually impulsive, that did not mean he was stupid.

Ye Feng looked several years younger than him, yet he was already a Soul Ancestor, and his Soul Ring configuration was downright heaven-defying.

A genius like this—did anyone really think he had no backing behind him?

He would not believe it even if someone beat him to death.

With that thought, Yu Tianheng took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart. "I failed to recognize greatness and offended you. Farewell."

After saying that, he turned to leave, moving more than twice as fast as he had when he arrived.

"Stop."

Yu Tianheng paused, his shoulders tensing slightly, but he did not turn around. "...What else is there?"

"You said just now that I was supposed to kneel, kowtow three times, and then get out of Heaven Dou City."

Ye Feng strolled forward leisurely. "And now you think you can leave with one word of farewell? Wouldn't that make me look pretty bad?"

Yu Tianheng suddenly turned around, his face dark. "Then what do you want?"

Ye Feng grinned. "Simple. How you treated me is how I'll treat you. Kneel, kowtow three times, then get out of Heaven Dou City. Fair, right?"

The onlookers instantly exploded into an uproar.

"Damn! He's really going all the way!"

"Karma Fire Phoenix is insane! He won't even give the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan any face!"

"This is going to be good!"

Yu Tianheng's face turned livid, his fists crackling as he clenched them. Blue-violet lightning crackled across the surface of his body. "You... don't go too far!"

"Too far?" Ye Feng raised an eyebrow. "You made me kneel in front of all these people just now. Was that not going too far? But when I make you kneel, now it's too far?"

He paused, his smile fading. "Yu Tianheng, do you think everyone is afraid of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's name?"

Yu Tianheng's pupils shrank slightly, his face alternating between green and white.

He suddenly understood.

It was not that Ye Feng did not know who he was, nor was it that Ye Feng refused to give him face. Ye Feng was deliberately using him to establish his authority.

In front of so many people in Heaven Dou City, he was going to trample the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's genius beneath his feet.

Once word of this spread, Karma Fire Phoenix's reputation would completely overshadow Yu Tianheng's, perhaps even the entire younger generation of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Yu Tianheng's face turned livid, his fists crackling as he clenched them. Blue-violet lightning crackled across the surface of his body.

"Don't go too far!"

"Too far?" Ye Feng gave a mocking smile. "When you told me to kneel just now, why didn't you think you were going too far?"

"Now you think it's too far? Too late."

Yu Tianheng drew a deep breath, a flash of ruthlessness passing through his eyes. "Brat, you forced my hand!"

He abruptly retreated a step as the lightning around him surged.

Two yellow and one purple Soul Rings beneath his feet lit up in unison. Blue-violet lightning snakes raced wildly over his body, releasing a series of crackling explosions.

"Third Soul Skill—Thunder Fury!"

He knew his Soul Power was inferior to Ye Feng's, so he immediately used his most powerful Soul Skill.

As his words fell, Yu Tianheng's entire body seemed to be swallowed by lightning. Blue-violet electric radiance erupted from within him, gathering above his head into a massive pillar of lightning that shot into the sky.

The power of this attack frightened even the onlookers on both sides of the street into retreating again and again, afraid of being caught in its range.

"Damn! Yu Tianheng is getting serious!"

"I heard even Soul Kings don't dare take Thunder Fury head-on!"

"Can Karma Fire Phoenix block it?"

Just then, a sonic boom rang out.

Ye Feng suddenly vanished from where he stood—without warning, without charging up, without a trace of Soul Power fluctuation.

It was as though he had evaporated into thin air.

Yu Tianheng's pupils contracted sharply. Instinctively, he tried to summon lightning to protect his body, but it was already too late.

A crimson-gold afterimage had appeared before him.

At some unknown moment, Ye Feng had already arrived in front of Yu Tianheng. His right hand was clenched into a fist, crimson-gold flames condensing over it into a thin film of light.

Then.

One punch.

Simple, direct, without any flourish.

"Bang!"

The fist struck Yu Tianheng in the chest.

The lightning instantly collapsed.

The pillar of lightning that reached toward the heavens went out at once, like a power source whose cord had been cut.

Yu Tianheng's body bent into the shape of a shrimp. His eyes nearly bulged from their sockets, his mouth hanging wide open, yet he could not make a sound.

He lowered his head and saw a charred fist mark on his chest, smoke still rising from its edges.

Then, he fell straight backward.

"Thud."

The back of his head struck the bluestone pavement with a dull sound.

Yu Tianheng lay on the ground, his limbs twitching twice. Blue-violet lightning flickered over his body twice before going completely dark.

The crowd fell silent for two seconds, then erupted.

"Damn! One punch?!"

"He got one-shot? Yu Tianheng didn't even finish using his Soul Skill?!"

"Karma Fire Phoenix didn't even activate his Soul Rings! That was just an ordinary punch!"

"What kind of freaking monster is this?!"

"I just said Yu Tianheng could last three moves. Now I feel like an idiot."

Ye Feng glanced at the twitching Yu Tianheng on the ground, too lazy to spare him a second look. He turned and jerked his chin toward Dugu Yan and Shui Bing'er.

"Let's go eat."

"Y-you're just leaving like that?"

Dugu Yan stared blankly at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan genius on the ground, then looked at Ye Feng. "But that's Yu Tianheng."

"So what if he's Yu Tianheng?" Ye Feng did not even turn his head. "It's not Yu Tian-cuisine. You can't eat him."

Shui Bing'er pressed her lips together with a smile and followed him.

Holding back her laughter, Dugu Yan hurried after Ye Feng. Before leaving, she did not forget to glance back at Yu Tianheng on the ground and shake her head.

The three turned past the street corner and vanished into the night.

The onlookers looked at one another. Only after quite a while did someone finally react.

"Damn, Karma Fire Phoenix just left like that? He didn't even leave behind a threatening line?"

"What threatening line? He knocked the guy down with one punch. Isn't that threatening enough?"

"Fair point... Then what do we do about Young Master Yu?"

Everyone looked toward the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan heir still twitching on the ground, but no one dared step forward to help him up.

After all, who knew whether he would fly into a rage from humiliation after waking up and vent his anger on whoever had helped him?

And so Yu Tianheng remained sprawled on the bluestone pavement, staring up at the stars like an overturned salted fish.