The moment he roared out the name "Darkness Emperor," the whole world seemed to fall silent.
The air froze.
Time stopped flowing.
Behind Yue Feng, the Seven Kills General, the Four Great Kings, and the other senior members of Asura Hall all turned to stone.
What did this guy just say?
His backer... was the Hall Master?
He was standing right in front of the Hall Master himself, claiming the Hall Master was his backer?
What kind of ridiculous stunt was this?
For a moment, the atmosphere grew incredibly bizarre.
Only Zhou Pengfei remained lost in his own world.
He failed to notice the strange looks around him and assumed the name he had dropped had scared them all witless.
"Hahaha!"
Zhou Pengfei planted his hands on his hips, threw his head back, and laughed with unbridled arrogance and triumph.
"Well? Scared now? Stunned speechless?"
"Yue Feng, and all you other scum, now you know who's backing me!"
"Get on your knees, kowtow, and apologize!"
"Let me tell you, I'm a trusted agent the Darkness Emperor personally planted in the Dragon Kingdom! If you so much as touch a hair on my head today, the Hall Master will never let you get away with it!"
The more Zhou Pengfei spoke, the more excited he became, as though he already had everyone under his control.
He even began imagining how he would deal with Yue Feng and the others.
Should I break their legs?
Or make them kneel and bark like dogs?
Yet after laughing for a good while, Zhou Pengfei realized that not a single person had responded.
Dead silence still surrounded him.
"What? Are you all so terrified you can't even speak?"
Zhou Pengfei looked at Yue Feng and found him staring back with the pitying gaze one might