After crushing the communicator, Yue Xiaofei finally felt some of the anger in his chest ease.
He knew his words must have seared themselves into the Female Chancellor's heart like a red-hot iron.
Good!
That was exactly the effect Yue Xiaofei wanted.
He wanted more than to destroy his enemies' bodies. He wanted to break them utterly in spirit!
He wanted them to live in fear and unease, day and night!
Just then, Zhang Huaiyu walked over. He looked at Yue Xiaofei, unable to hide the surprise and curiosity in his eyes.
"Yue Xiaofei, you..."
He searched for the right words, then could not help asking, "What you just did was astonishing. I remember your strength was nowhere near this level when we were in Modu not long ago. How did you improve so quickly?"
Zhang Huaiyu was a martial arts prodigy ranked tenth on the Dragon Ranking. Little escaped his eye.
He could clearly sense that Yue Xiaofei was a different man from before.
That powerful aura radiating from his very bones—powerful enough to make one's heart tremble—could not be faked.
Hearing Zhang Huaiyu's question, Yue Xiaofei made no attempt to hide the truth.
Everyone there was on his side, after all.
"It's a long story. You could say a strange twist of fate led me to an unexpected opportunity."
Yue Xiaofei gave a wry smile and explained briefly, "I was badly injured a while ago and underwent the Kunlun Project's modifications."
"The Kunlun Project?"
Zhang Huaiyu and the Old Celestial Master, who had been listening nearby, both froze.
Though they lived apart from worldly affairs, they had heard of some of the nation's top-secret projects.
"The one run by that madman Ye Kunlun? The project trying to create super-soldiers through genetic modification?"
Zhang Huaiyu's expression shifted slightly.
"That's