Whoosh...!
A figure suddenly rushed out from across the field, charging toward Xiong Ba and Sword Demon in the center.
Li Chenfeng looked up. The man who had rushed out was dressed in white—it was Qin Shuang, Xiong Ba's foremost disciple and the hall master of the World Society's Frost Hall!
The corner of Li Chenfeng's mouth curled upward. This was precisely the situation he had hoped for, and he would not allow anyone to interfere.
He held his index and middle fingers together like a sword, and a clearer crimson Sword Qi shot from his fingertips. In an instant, it arrived before Qin Shuang.
Qin Shuang, who was flying through the air, was greatly startled. He had just seen that even his master, Xiong Ba, had found it difficult to withstand this crimson Sword Qi.
"Frost Fist!"
With a loud shout, a fist imprint formed from ice and snow flew from his hand, striking the Sword Qi with a punch.
Li Chenfeng raised a brow. He had not expected that, after two years apart, Qin Shuang had also become a top expert of the Xiantian Realm. He should have been around twenty years old now. To reach the Xiantian Realm at such an age, he could certainly be considered an absolute genius among martial artists.
The Sword Qi and fist imprint collided in midair and both dissipated into the air. Qin Shuang was forced to flip backward in retreat, his gaze landing on Li Chenfeng across from him.
"It's him!"
Once he clearly saw Li Chenfeng's face, an image immediately surfaced in Qin Shuang's mind.
Three years ago, this seventeen-year-old youth had defeated him in just a few moves. It had also been the first time Qin Shuang had suffered such a complete defeat.
Three years later, he had already advanced into the Xiantian Realm. Yet judging by the other party's attack, this astonishing youth had clearly become a top expert of the martial world as well.
In fact, he was still stronger than Qin Shuang!
However, Li Chenfeng had no interest in what the other man was thinking. He had more important matters to attend to.
Xiong Ba and Sword Demon had each suffered grievous injuries from the other, leaving both of them unable to move at the same time. Li Chenfeng intended to seize this opportunity to take them both out of the World Society.
Taking advantage of Qin Shuang's rapid retreat, Li Chenfeng crossed dozens of meters in an instant and arrived beside Sword Demon and Xiong Ba.
Xiong Ba, who could already feel that half his body was immobile, immediately shrank his pupils. He had little ability to resist now. If Li Chenfeng attacked, he would truly be at another's mercy!
Unlike Xiong Ba, Sword Demon's face brightened. Not only had he suffered severe injuries, but all the true qi in his body had also been exhausted. For the moment, he could not launch another attack and could only remain locked in a stalemate with Xiong Ba.
Now that he saw his own disciple arrive in the field first, he was naturally overjoyed.
"Feng'er, kill him!" Sword Demon shouted without hesitation.
Xiong Ba's heart immediately tightened. He endured the Sword Qi raging within his body and tried to counterattack, but although Sword Demon's Meridian-Severing Sword Qi had not pierced his heart, it had thoroughly ravaged his insides.
The moment he tried to gather his true qi, intense pain surged through him, causing the small amount of true qi he had condensed to disperse at once.
Could it be that Heaven truly wants me, Xiong Ba, dead?
Yet Li Chenfeng's actions surprised both Sword Demon and Xiong Ba. Rather than taking Xiong Ba's life immediately, he grabbed both men by the shoulders, launched himself into the air with his movement technique, and shot toward the mountains beyond the Three-Part Training Ground.
"Not good!"
Seeing the sudden turn of events, Qin Shuang hastily shouted to the people behind him, "Stop them!"
With that, he charged out first.
The World Society members behind him naturally followed close after, while the sect leaders who had pledged allegiance lagged a step behind before pursuing them as well.
Li Chenfeng unleashed his movement technique, fully driving the immense true qi within him. His body became a blur, and within several breaths, he had cleared the high walls of the Three-Part Training Ground and entered Mount Tianshan.
After running twenty or thirty li, Li Chenfeng found a concealed cave and plunged inside with Xiong Ba and Sword Demon.
At this point, both Sword Demon and Xiong Ba were still utterly confused, unable to understand what Li Chenfeng intended to do.
Seeing Li Chenfeng finally stop, Sword Demon could not help but ask.
"Feng'er, you..."
Before he could finish speaking, Li Chenfeng struck like lightning, instantly pressing a finger against Sword Demon's Shanzhong Acupoint.
"You..."
Pfft!
Before he could finish a single sentence, Sword Demon spat out a mouthful of blood. Then, with deep confusion and unwillingness in his eyes, he collapsed to the ground.
Li Chenfeng expressionlessly watched Sword Demon lying on the ground, gradually losing the life in him, unsure what he was thinking.
Although he knew full well that this man was the murderer of this body's father and had always lusted after his mother, when Li Chenfeng truly killed him with his own hands, he still felt no joy at having avenged a great wrong.
Watching Sword Demon, now lifeless on the ground, Xiong Ba could not make sense of what had just happened, even with his lofty self-confidence.
"Hahaha!" Looking at Sword Demon's corpse, Xiong Ba suddenly threw back his head and laughed.
"You, Sword Demon, ruled the martial world in vain. In the end, you were ambushed and killed by your own disciple in such a stifling manner. What a complete laughingstock!"
Li Chenfeng turned his head and looked at the laughing Xiong Ba with utter disdain.
Compared to Sword Demon, how much better could you, Xiong Ba, be? In the end, would you not also die at your own disciple's hands?
Come to think of it, Xiong Ba and Sword Demon were indeed rather alike. Both had taken their enemies as disciples, and both would ultimately die at the hands of the disciples they had painstakingly trained.
Shaking his head and suppressing those thoughts, Li Chenfeng looked at Xiong Ba expressionlessly.
"The eldest young master of Sword Worship Villa, Ao Feng?" Xiong Ba stopped laughing and looked at Li Chenfeng with equal seriousness.
"Sword Worship Villa is also a family that has endured for centuries. I had thought it was about to decline completely, but I never expected it to produce a helmsman like you. Its century-old prestige will soon be restored!"
Li Chenfeng did not react at all to Xiong Ba's words. Looking into his eyes, Li Chenfeng said coldly, "Hand over the cultivation methods for the Three Absolutes Divine Skill and the Three-Part Return-to-Origin Qi, and I can spare your life!"
Xiong Ba's expression instantly became solemn as he carefully examined Li Chenfeng.
He had originally thought that the other party would kill him without hesitation. He had not expected Li Chenfeng to make such a demand.
However, he did not believe Li Chenfeng's words.
After all, no matter how one looked at it, killing him would be far more beneficial to Sword Worship Villa, would it not?
As long as word spread that Sword Worship Villa had killed Xiong Ba, the leader of the World Society, and then took over the World Society's forces, the entire martial world of the Central Plains would fall into Li Chenfeng's hands.
Moreover, although his Three Absolutes Divine Skill was renowned throughout the land, he had never used the Three-Part Return-to-Origin Qi. How had the other party learned the name of its Cultivation Method?
At that thought, Xiong Ba's heart stirred. Aside from himself, only one person could know of the Three-Part Return-to-Origin Qi Cultivation Method!