,/.

Zhou Feng's strength was merely at the Spirit Sword Realm.

Moreover, he was relatively weak even among those at the Spirit Sword Realm.

The Heavenly Imperial Sword Armor could defend against it with ease.

Even if Su Fan stood still, Zhou Feng could not kill him!

"Die, die, die!"

Zhou Feng only felt utterly humiliated!

Being grabbed by the neck and mocked as a little chick?

He had never suffered such humiliation in his life!

And to think he was being humiliated by someone everyone mocked as trash!

He swung his sword madly, relentlessly bombarding Su Fan!

"Yes, just like that. Put some strength into it! Didn't you eat?"

"You little chick, you're truly too useless!"

Su Fan mocked him.

Gripping the back of Zhou Feng's neck, he spun him in a circle from left to right, then spun him another circle from right to left.

He let Zhou Feng attack him frantically!

After quite a while!

Zhou Feng broke down.

"Aaaah... don't come any closer!"

"What kind of monster are you? Why won't you die?!"

Drenched in sweat and with his hair in disarray, Zhou Feng had already broken down!

He regretted it!

He should not have come to kill someone for those treasures.

How the hell was this trash?

This was a monster, wasn't it?

An unkillable monster!

Smack! Smack!

Su Fan struck out with both hands, giving him two slaps that directly swelled Zhou Feng's cheeks and drew blood from the corners of his mouth. Zhou Feng looked at him with a face full of terror.

At this moment, Zhou Feng really did resemble a frightened little chick!

"I ask, you answer. Understand?"

Su Fan gripped Zhou Feng's neck and spun him around. Once he was back in place, Su Fan stared at him and asked.

Zhou Feng nodded with terror written all over his face.

"Who sent you to kill me?"

"I don't know!"

Su Fan grinned viciously and tightened his hand, making Zhou Feng's neck crack and pop as though it could be snapped at any moment.

"Little chick, you're not being honest, are you?"

Zhou Feng broke down. "I really don't know! He..."

"Then tell me everything you do know!"

"Yes, yes!"

Zhou Feng did not hide anything and told him every last detail.

This included the black-robed man telling him to deliver a message to Tang Duan.

"I've told you everything I know. Can you let me go now?"

Zhou Feng trembled like a chick that had been scared half to death.

Su Fan narrowed his eyes, rage surging to the heavens within him.

The black-robed man, was it?

Just wait. Sooner or later, I'll kill you!

The other party was very likely a King Realm expert, an existence comparable to the Void Sword Realm.

Although Su Fan believed that, with his current strength, he might be able to kill the other party by using a forbidden art.

It was still somewhat risky in the end.

Besides, the King Realm was only Zhou Feng's guess.

"No rush. Let him prance around for a few more days!"

Su Fan, well versed in the art of lying low, naturally would not do anything risky.

For now, he would lie low at the Cliff of Reflection and raise his strength!

Su Fan patted Zhou Feng's face, put on a kind smile, and said, "He wanted you to deliver a message to Tang Duan, right?"

"Y-yes!"

Zhou Feng nodded shakily.

"No problem. I'll let you go deliver that message to Tang Duan!"

Su Fan smiled like a warm spring breeze.

He looked just like a kind-hearted person.

Zhou Feng heaved a sigh of relief.

His eyes even grew moist.

Su Fan was a good person!

He would not kill him!

"Go on, deliver the message to Tang Duan!"

Su Fan reached out and patted Zhou Feng on the head.

"Thank you, thank you!"

Zhou Feng looked overwhelmed with gratitude.

"It's only right!"

Su Fan said with a cheerful smile, "Let me see you off."

Zhou Feng hurriedly said, "No, no, I can go by myself!"

"You must. I won't feel at ease letting you go alone!"

Heaven-Shattering Sword Intent emerged on Su Fan's palm.

He lightly patted Zhou Feng on the head.

Zhou Feng's eyes widened, his body stiffened, and all life left him!

Su Fan grabbed the back of Zhou Feng's neck, walked to the edge of the Cliff of Reflection, and directly tossed Zhou Feng's corpse into the abyss below.

This was also where he had thrown Tang Duan's corpse.

"I, Su Fan, am a man of my word. Since I said I'd let you deliver a message to Tang Duan, I certainly won't go back on my word!"

Su Fan clapped his hands and spoke with a solemn expression.

Beneath the Cliff of Reflection lay an abyss shrouded in clouds and mist, filled with unknown dangers.

It was said that not even the Sword Master had ever set foot at the bottom of the abyss.

When I get the chance, I can go down there and take a look. There might be some secrets hidden below.

Su Fan thought to himself.

After dealing with Zhou Feng, Su Fan returned to the Forbidden Art Graveyard.

"Black-robed man, was it? Just wait!"

Su Fan suppressed the fury in his heart.

The last one who had come to kill him was Tang Duan, a Mystic Sword Realm cultivator.

This time, it had been Zhou Feng, a Spirit Sword Realm cultivator.

Next time, would it be someone at the Void Sword Realm?

"No matter how many come, I'll kill them all!"

Su Fan thought coldly.

Those at the Void Sword Realm stood among the upper ranks of Sword God Mountain.

Generally speaking, hiring a Void Sword Realm expert came at a steep price.

Was the other party really willing to pay such an exorbitant price to hire a Void Sword Realm expert to kill him?

Why exactly did they want to kill him?

Su Fan pondered.

Breaking off the engagement, being driven out of the Gan Royal Estate, assassins...

What hidden truth is there behind all this?

Su Fan asked himself. He had not offended anyone.

Aside from the possibility he had guessed at—perhaps some admirer of Wu Aoxue, an unknown romantic rival—there should not be any faction that wanted to kill him.

"Wu Aoxue has already broken off the engagement. Even if there's some melodramatic romantic rival, there's no reason for him to insist on putting me to death, right?"

"Still, there are always idiots in this world. It's hard to say."

Su Fan suddenly thought of another possibility.

Could it be related to his mother?

The reason a piece of trash like him had been able to forge a marriage contract with Wu Aoxue, the eldest daughter of the Tianwu Royal Estate, was because of his mother.

However, when his mother went out when he was six years old, she died in an accident.

"Forget it. There's no use overthinking it. Once I'm strong enough, everything will naturally become clear."

Su Fan did not continue thinking about it.

No matter what hidden truth lay behind this.

As long as he was powerful enough—powerful enough to be invincible beneath the heavens—he would naturally learn the answer.

He looked toward the rows of Forbidden Technique Tombs.

"I have the Heaven-Shattering Sword for offense and the Heavenly Imperial Sword Armor for defense, but it's still not enough!"

Su Fan wanted to arm himself in every possible way, leaving no weakness or flaw behind.

Attack, defense, speed, and more!

Su Fan walked toward a massive tomb.

"Forbidden art: Tomb of the Nine Heavens Sword Evasion."

If it had not been clearly marked as a forbidden art, one would never have thought it was one merely from the name of the technique.

Nine Heavens Sword Escape!

This was the forbidden art Su Fan would cultivate next!

From the name alone, it was clear that this was an escape-type forbidden art.

Generally speaking, such forbidden arts were used to flee for one's life.

But for Su Fan.

It would be used to hunt down enemies!

He would make his enemies unable to escape even if they wanted to, letting them experience what true despair was!

"It won't be too late to cultivate it after I break through to the Spirit Sword Realm!"

Su Fan did not immediately open the Forbidden Technique Tomb.

Instead, he planned to cultivate this forbidden art after breaking through to the Spirit Sword Realm.

The higher his realm, the more different insights he might gain during cultivation.

At last.

It was time once more to use the Fate-Defying Heavenly Ladder to raise his realm.

Su Fan sat down cross-legged.

"To break through to the Spirit Sword Realm, I need to condense spirituality within the Mystic Sword in my body..."

The techniques he cultivated were forbidden arts, and the method he used to raise his realm was also a forbidden art—a simple and brutal method of cultivation.

Normally, it was impossible to condense spirituality while advancing one's realm.

"As usual, I'll enter enlightenment a few times and figure out how to condense a Spirit Sword while using a forbidden art to raise my realm!"

Su Fan directly used the Heavenly Enlightenment Technique and began his enlightenment.