Ma Hongjun's laughter gradually faded. His sharp eyes had caught the flicker of gloom and disappointment in Yu Feng's eyes.
This tomboy was usually the last person to swallow an insult. Normally, if Ma Hongjun mocked him like this, he would have jumped up and started cursing long ago, never hanging his head in dejection like this.
"Hey, tomboy..."
Ma Hongjun dropped his smug, punchable expression and asked tentatively, "Are you... all right? Why do you look so wilted?"
Yu Feng's slender body trembled slightly. He hurriedly patted his cheeks and glared fiercely at him, stubbornly retorting, "None of your business! Stop acting like a dog catching mice-meddling where you don't belong! So what if I'm level thirty-eight? I've just hit a little bottleneck for now! Just you wait. I'll break through level forty before long! Then watch me catch up with you and pin you to the ground for a beating, you fat barnyard chicken!"
"Catch up with me?"
Ma Hongjun folded his arms and grinned, mercilessly crushing his hopes. "Try your next life! Your Brother Jun is covering a thousand miles a day. You couldn't catch me even if you whipped your horse!"
"You! Believe me, I'll bite you to death!"
Yu Feng clenched his pearly teeth in fury, wishing he could bite the fat fellow before him to death.
Angry as he was, Yu Feng ultimately could not keep his inner confusion bottled up.
"But seriously... fat barnyard chicken, what exactly have you been eating? You were several levels below me back in Heaven Dou City. How did you improve so quickly all of a sudden? You've overtaken me outright!"
At this, Ma Hongjun immediately perked up again. He raised a thumb toward the tip of his nose and lifted his chin smugly. "Of course! Just look