At night, Chu Feng sat upright on the villa's rooftop.
Before long, a voice rang out beside his ear. "The woods behind the academy. Come, or I'll raze the academy."
Chu Feng shook his head helplessly.
That old bastard really came.
He leaped off the rooftop and reached the woods behind the academy in a few quick movements.
As soon as he arrived, Chu Feng saw Zhao Wuji pinned down by Tang Hao's Soul Power and Flender trying to explain.
"Let Teacher Zhao go," Chu Feng called out calmly.
He walked straight up to Tang Hao without a trace of fear on his face.
Tang Hao's gaze was still as he looked down at the boy before him, who was about the same age as his own son.
The vast Soul Power within his body thundered toward him, crushing down.
"Please quell your anger, Your Excellency Haotian." Without the slightest hesitation, Flender darted in front of Chu Feng and spread a defensive barrier of Soul Power to its utmost, blocking the crushing Soul Power of a Titled Douluo.
Zhao Wuji, who had been firmly suppressed just moments earlier, also roared and strode forward with heavy steps. His burly frame planted itself firmly beside Flender, shielding Chu Feng behind them.
"Your Excellency Haotian, if you beat me, I'll accept it. I bullied someone younger than me."
"But Chu Feng's fight with Tang San was merely an exchange between fellow students."
"As a senior, isn't it far too inappropriate for you to treat a junior this way?" Zhao Wuji said in a deep, firm voice.
Tang Hao ignored Zhao Wuji's words, staring fixedly at Chu Feng. "Anyone who bullies my son either dies or becomes a dog in my hands. Choose."
He had seen Chu Feng's performance on the field today.
Even he had been shaken.
A genius like this ought to become a dog that bit people for him and did his bidding.
And help him overthrow Spirit Hall in the future.
At Tang Hao's words, a touch of silence and mockery entered Chu Feng's placid gaze. "Clear Sky Douluo Tang Hao, I know your deeds."
"As far as I'm concerned, you're nothing but trash!"
With those words, the air instantly fell deathly silent.
Flender and Zhao Wuji shuddered, their faces filled with horror.
Oh, my little ancestor, do you really have a death wish?
Insulting a Titled Douluo like that.
And Tang Hao, with his explosive temper, no less.
The presence around Tang Hao instantly turned savage, and killing intent surged into his scarlet eyes.
"Say that again?" His voice was hoarse, suppressing a fury on the verge of breaking loose.
"You... are..."
"Trash!" Chu Feng enunciated each word.
"Your fighting prowess reaches the heavens, yet here you are bullying a child like me."
"When Spirit Hall surrounded and hunted you back then, why couldn't you protect your wife?"
"After your wife was killed, why didn't you dare fight Spirit Hall to the death? What does clinging to a wretched existence count for?"
Chu Feng's words struck straight at the heart of the matter, each one landing on one of Tang Hao's sore spots.
"Where did you get this information?" The Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul appeared in Tang Hao's hand, his furious eyes filled with questions.
The matter of him and his wife, Ah Yin, could be considered a secret of the continent.
How could this child before him know about it?
Could this child be from Spirit Hall?
At the thought of that possibility, the killing intent in Tang Hao's eyes grew ever harder to suppress.
He knows this secret and even calls me trash. He cannot be allowed to live.
"What's it to you where I learned it?"
"All I know is that you're trash who doesn't dare avenge his wife." Chu Feng's tone remained unchanged.
"I'm biding my time," Tang Hao could not help arguing.
"Biding your time for what? For Tang San?" Chu Feng would not stop until his words shocked everyone.
Those words instantly made Tang Hao's pupils contract, and immense killing intent slammed into Chu Feng.
"How do you know Tang San is my son!"
Chu Feng waved a hand lightly, dispersing the killing intent. Rather than answer Tang Hao's question, he continued on his own. "If you say you're biding your time for Tang San, that's even more laughable."
"Judging by Tang San's appearance, he probably hasn't had a good life since he was little."
"And look at you. Filthy and reeking of booze. Young Tang San probably had a hard life and still had to look after you, his father."
Chu Feng's voice abruptly turned cold and sharp, every sentence piercing the heart and striking a vital point.
"Do you even count as a father?"
"Do you see Tang San as your son?"
"Perhaps, in your eyes, he's just a tool for taking revenge."
"Perhaps, if Tang San had no ability, you'd still be ignoring him even now."
"You're unworthy of being a husband, unworthy of being a father."
"Shut up!" Tang Hao's eyes were filled with madness.
Ah Yin's death and his own decline were things he did not want to face.
He also knew how he had treated Tang San when the boy was little.
Overwhelming shame and humiliation intertwined, utterly sweeping away Tang Hao's reason.
He raised the Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul in his hand and smashed it viciously toward Chu Feng's head.
He would kill this brat. Otherwise, he could never quell this hatred.
"This is bad." With no time to think, Flender and Zhao Wuji brought their lifetime of cultivation to bear and blocked Chu Feng.
"Little Feng, run!"
The Clear Sky Hammer smashed into their Soul Power barriers.
Blood instantly poured from the corner of Flender's mouth, and Zhao Wuji's muscles split open.
Two muffled groans followed.
Flender and Zhao Wuji flew backward like kites with severed strings, falling unconscious.
The lethal Clear Sky Hammer lost none of its momentum, reaching Chu Feng's face in an instant.
Yet Chu Feng's expression remained unchanged as he took a badge from his pocket.
He glanced at the full moon in the sky.
"It's time."
A dazzling white light spread from the badge, instantly illuminating the entire stretch of forest.
"Soul Power Sealing."
Buzz!
An invisible sealing force instantly spread out. The Clear Sky Hammer, just about to fall, abruptly stopped in midair, its overbearing Soul Power instantly falling silent.
Tang Hao's furious expression froze. He discovered, to his shock, that he could not muster his Soul Power no matter what, nor could he activate his Martial Soul.
While Tang Hao was stunned, Chu Feng lunged forward and tossed the badge onto him.
The badge flashed once and sank into Tang Hao's body.
"You-what did you do to me?"
Tang Hao was somewhat horrified, the towering fury in his eyes fading completely.
The unfamiliar terror of having all his power sealed and being left at another's mercy instantly seized his mind.
Without hesitation, Tang Hao dared not linger, nor did he even dare glance at Chu Feng again. He abruptly shot backward.
Where he had once strode through the air, now he could only flee in a hurried stumble.
Chu Feng did not follow. His own Soul Power had been sealed as well.
He helped Flender and Zhao Wuji up and fed them Oscar's sausages.
"Little Feng, what was that just now?"
"I feel like I can't muster any of my Soul Power," Flender said somewhat weakly.
"A little trinket," Chu Feng said casually.
That badge was a special badge given by the system, and its function was to seal the Soul Power of everyone within a hundred meters.
The badge could also enter a Soul Master's body and seal that person's Soul Power for ten days.
Its drawback was that it could only be used when the moon hung high directly overhead.
When he first obtained the badge, Chu Feng had thought it was rather like chicken ribs-of little use, yet a pity to discard.
Now it seemed quite useful after all.
"You've got quite a few little trinkets," Flender said irritably.
"Next time you have something this good, use it earlier. My poor back."
Despite his words, there was no real blame on his face.