An eerie green light flared in Chu Luo's eyes!
The hand hidden inside his sleeve shot out!
A faint, silent green glow coiled around his palm.
Strange runes wound through it!
The instant Chu Luo extended his hand-
The wild grass beneath his feet withered!
Then Chu Luo's palm collided with Liu Feng's.
Boom...
Chu Luo took Liu Feng's palm strike head-on. The tremendous force drove him back more than a dozen steps before he steadied himself.
His arm tingled with numbness, and his blood surged wildly!
"Whoa... what incredible strength!"
Chu Luo drew a deep breath and shook out his hand!
"Argh..."
"You... what did you do to me...?"
"Argh..."
Liu Feng's heart-rending screams rang out.
Chu Luo looked up and saw Liu Feng clutching his arm, rolling on the ground!
Strange green markings spread upward along his arm.
Chu Luo walked over to Liu Feng and looked down at him, flashing eight gleaming white teeth.
He looked utterly harmless!
This Forbidden Secret Arts, God-Slaying Heavenly Poison, activated without a sound.
It produced neither fluctuations in aura nor any unusual manifestations.
Moreover, this vicious technique had no cure.
Within ten breaths, its victim would dissolve into a puddle of blood!
With Chu Luo's current cultivation, even an expert at the peak of the Great Beginning Realm would face certain death if struck!
It was practically an essential finishing move for any sneaky bastard launching an ambush!
Among the thousand Forbidden Secret Arts, there were over a hundred vicious finishing moves like this one!
Chu Luo strongly suspected that whoever had created these vicious arts must have been a whole pack of sneaky bastards!
"Argh..."
"Save me... Chu Luo... I know I was wrong..."
"Quick, cure the poison..."
Liu Feng could no longer mobilize any spiritual power.
The pain from his arm pierced deep into his soul!
He grabbed Chu Luo's shoe with one hand and begged for mercy in agony.
Not a trace remained of his bearing as a young prodigy.
Chu Luo spread his hands and smiled helplessly. "Sorry, I can't cure it either..."
"Just lie there and wait to die!"
Chu Luo's words left Liu Feng on the verge of despair, his eyes brimming with venomous hatred.
A ruthless look crossed his face.
He grabbed his poisoned arm with his other hand.
And yanked with all his strength!
Liu Feng tore his own arm clean off!
Yet the instant he tore it off-
The blood spraying from the wound was green, not red!
A moment later, strange green markings covered Liu Feng's entire body.
Then his flesh began to melt...
Filled with regret, Liu Feng's consciousness gradually faded, and his life ebbed away...
"Young Sect Master!!"
The nine Heavenly Gate Sect disciples still fighting noticed that Liu Feng had already dissolved into a puddle of blood!
Every one of them paled in horror!
Their momentary distraction gave the six core disciples an opening!
"You dare let your minds wander!"
"Die!"
Boom...
"Argh..."
The nine Heavenly Gate Sect disciples were slain by the six core disciples of the Forbidden Sect!
"Senior Brother Chu!"
"Amazing!"
After killing them, the six core disciples approached Chu Luo.
Seeing Liu Feng reduced to a puddle of blood, they could not help drawing sharp breaths.
Their eyes were filled with admiration as they looked at Chu Luo!
Their Senior Brother Chu had actually slain a Great Beginning Realm prodigy with only Divine Soul Second Realm cultivation!
If word got out, probably no one would believe it!
"Just the basics. No need to applaud!"
"Let's hurry, or someone else will show up!"
"Oh, right, Junior Brother Tang, find me a couple of spirit herbs rich in vitality..."
Chu Luo addressed the disciple leading the group.
Casting God-Slaying Heavenly Poison just now had actually cost him three hundred years of his lifespan...
"On it!"
The disciple entered the Medicine Field and soon brought Chu Luo three spirit herbs brimming with vitality.
Chu Luo picked up the herbs and began munching on them.
The others continued plundering spirit herbs and frantically digging up Spirit Soil.
Their movements were exceptionally practiced...
One glance was enough to tell that Forbidden Sect disciples did this sort of thing often...
While Chu Luo directed the disciples as they dug up Spirit Soil-
He had no idea that outside the secret realm, the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking had appeared again!
Hum, hum, hum...
The illusory Heavenly Prodigy Ranking appeared in the sky.
The experts from the various factions waiting outside were all startled and hurriedly looked up.
On the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking-
The words "Liu Feng, Heavenly Gate Sect" vanished from the hundred-and-eighteenth position.
Replacing them were the words "Chu Luo, Forbidden Sect"!
"What... how is that possible?!"
"Wasn't Liu Feng of the Heavenly Gate Sect in the Great Beginning Realm?!"
"Heavens... could Chu Luo of the Forbidden Sect actually be a Great Beginning Realm expert?"
"Tsk, tsk... this Chu Luo has knocked two prodigies off the ranking in a single month..."
"Exactly. The Heavenly Prodigy Ranking had two hundred prodigies, but now only a hundred and eighty-something remain..."
"They'll only have a chance to get back onto the ranking when the next Heavenly Prodigy Ranking Assembly is held..."
"..."
The experts from countless factions were all astonished, sighing with emotion...
"That little bastard... how could he...?"
Flame Lord Ancient Sage saw Chu Luo's name appear in the hundred-and-eighteenth position.
His composure crumbled.
Of their three prodigies who had entered the secret realm, the strongest, Du Sheng, was in the same realm as Liu Feng!
He ranked a hundred and twentieth!
At that moment, an ominous foreboding rose in Flame Lord Ancient Sage's heart...
"Don't worry too much!"
"Perhaps Liu Feng encountered another prodigy, and that little bastard merely swooped in to reap the spoils..."
Netherflame Ancient Sage reassured him.
Flame Lord Ancient Sage nodded slightly, thinking that must be what had happened...
Zhao Sheng and Qin Yi were also utterly bewildered when they saw Chu Luo's name appear in the hundred-and-eighteenth position...
The two elders were deeply curious.
How had that brat defeated Liu Feng, who was in the Great Beginning Realm?
Had he used another Forbidden Secret Arts?
"Feng'er!!"
Just then-
A cry of heartbroken anguish drew everyone's attention.
They saw a man wearing white robes, his face filled with grief.
He held a shattered life tablet in both hands, his eyes bloodshot...
This man was none other than the Heavenly Gate Sect's sect master, Liu Daoyuan!
He was also Liu Feng's father!
Seeing this, Zhao Sheng and Qin Yi exchanged a glance and instantly understood everything.
So the brat had not merely defeated Liu Feng.
He had slaughtered him!
"Forbidden Sect, give me an explanation!"
His face blazing with fury, Liu Daoyuan glared at Zhao Sheng and Qin Yi!
His furious voice thundered through heaven and earth!
Billowing sage pressure surged into the sky!
"Heh..."
"What are you barking about?!"
"An explanation?"
"What does our Forbidden Sect need to explain to you?!"
"He wasn't as skilled as his opponent, and you still have the nerve to come out and make a fool of yourself!"
"Come to think of it, that son of yours really was useless. He was in the Great Beginning Realm, yet our Chu Luo still killed him!"
"Now that the little one's gone, you old ones have to come jumping out?"
"Hmph!"
"Sect Master Liu, if you have time to stand here barking, you'd be better off going home and having another one..."
Zhao Sheng glanced at Liu Daoyuan, his face full of mockery.
The experts from the many top factions present could not help twitching at the corners of their mouths and silently shaking their heads.
Zhao Sheng's words were far more than a little nasty...
"You..."
Liu Daoyuan seethed, forcibly suppressing his fury until his face flushed crimson!
"What about me?"
"If you want a fight, us two old fellows will oblige!"
"One against two. Beat us two old fellows, and you come out ahead!"
"But if you lose, you'll leave your life here!"
Qin Yi rolled up his sleeves and drew his spirit sword again.
"Hmph!"
"Forbidden Sect, I hope you can still act so overbearing when our Heavenly Gate Sect's ancestor comes knocking!"
Liu Daoyuan flicked his sleeve and departed, filled with grief and rage...
"Hmph!"
"As if anyone's sect doesn't have a few old fossils..."
Zhao Sheng muttered, then closed his eyes again to compose himself as he waited for Chu Luo and the others to emerge.
[Apprentice-Protection Points from Elder Zhao Sheng +5000] [Apprentice-Protection Points from Elder Qin Yi +5000]
"Huh? What happened?"
Chu Luo had just finished plundering the Medicine Field with the disciples.
Suddenly, he received notifications from the system...
Chu Luo looked utterly bewildered...
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