Chapter 89: The Name of Ye Feng
With a thunderous roar, Ye Feng shot into the battle like a cannonball.
His shattered dragon blade came down in a sweeping cleave, and at once a golden blade aura, nearly ten feet long, condensed in an instant.
Boom.
It was irresistible. With Ye Feng now at the level of a spiritual emperor, the full force of that single strike shattered weapons in its path, and even two or three spiritual king experts were cleanly cut in half.
“Ye Feng, it’s Ye Feng...”
“My God, that aura—how did he become a spiritual emperor?”
At that single stroke, all fighting ceased. Seeing that figure of Ye Feng, like a war god descending, many drew sharp breaths.
Roar...
At that moment, the ice serpent also burst swiftly from the lake. With a furious bellow, its immense body surged toward Ye Feng.
“Anyone who dares strike again will answer to me,” Ye Feng roared, rushing forward at full speed and luring the serpent upward above the lake.
If he fought the ice serpent here, the terrifying spiritual power would surely sweep over the hundreds below. By then, aside from a precious few, hardly anyone present would survive.
If that happened, this mess would all be pinned on Ye Feng’s head.
To avoid being hacked to death by the noble lords of the capital, Second Brother Ye made that decision with admirable wisdom.
Roar...
As soon as he reached the air above the lake, that snake tail, thicker than Ye Feng was tall, crashed down upon him.
“Hold the heavens!”
Feeling that suffocating pressure, Ye Feng shouted, and at the very instant the tail reached him, his body retreated in a blur.
Bang.
Yet what followed stunned everyone.
After sweeping into Ye Feng, that fearsome tail actually rang out with a sound like metal striking stone.
Even Ye Feng himself was somewhat astonished. That overwhelming blow, after being obstructed by his defense, had merely driven him back a few steps, leaving him unharmed.
“Haha... beast, let’s see what else you can do!”
Laughing wildly, Ye Feng’s spiritual power surged at full speed into the dragon blade in his hand.
“Witness my Heaven Dragon Nine Cleaves.”
Singing dragon cries rose as a dragon-shaped blade aura appeared.
In the next instant, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth seemed drawn by some mysterious force, rushing swiftly into the dragon-shaped blade aura.
“It’s drawing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth by itself—this is... a divine power technique. My heavens, what kind of fortune did Ye Feng obtain to become so monstrous?”
With that strike, everyone below changed color. More than a few, upon seeing it, quietly turned to leave.
They knew perfectly well that with Ye Feng’s vengeful temperament, since they had just attacked Jia Luo and the others, this could never be left at that.
Roar...
On the other side, while the dragon-shaped blade aura devoured the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, threads of frost power also moved rapidly over the ice serpent’s body.
At the same time, the serpent opened its blood maw and spat out a huge ice ball nearly a yard across.
As soon as the ice ball appeared, the surrounding temperature plunged again. In the distance, the lake surface began to form a fine crust of ice.
Singing...
The change brought by the ice ball seemed to enrage the dragon-shaped blade aura. With a dragon cry, the blade glow in the void ceased devouring spiritual energy and hurtled toward the ice ball with a shriek.
Boom.
Like a comet striking the earth, the ice ball shattered instantly into pieces.
A shockwave spread outward, and under its influence everyone below swayed unsteadily, unable to keep their footing.
When the force of the impact reached the lake, the thin ice that had formed melted in an instant.
Singing...
After shattering the ice ball, the dragon-shaped blade aura had dimmed considerably. With an angry cry, it shot toward the ice serpent once more.
Bang.
The dragon-shaped blade aura transformed into the shape of a long saber and struck heavily against the serpent’s body.
Hiss...
As the blade aura passed, a deep wound to the bone appeared on the ice serpent’s massive body.
Blood sprayed across the sky.
“Dragon Capturing Hand!”
Ye Feng pressed the advantage mercilessly. Just as the ice serpent turned to flee, a gigantic golden hand condensed rapidly from the void.
With Ye Feng’s motion, that enormous golden hand seized the serpent’s tail.
Die.
Standing in midair, Ye Feng controlled the golden giant hand as it gripped the snake tail, then hurled the beast violently down toward the ground.
Boom.
The ice serpent, tens of yards long, was smashed into the earth, causing violent tremors. Even the placid lake surface rippled with waves.
“Th-this still counts as a human? A spiritual emperor-level ice serpent, and he’s actually grabbing its tail and smashing it around?”
Boom.
Before the words below had even faded, the golden giant hand once again lifted the dying ice serpent and smashed it down hard.
When the golden hand dispersed, the serpent, tens of yards long, was dead beyond all doubt.
Its immense body lay helplessly amid shattered stones and splintered wood, motionless.
Everyone stood frozen, staring at the wreckage before them, and not a single person dared speak.
Squeak, squeak...
The next moment, Monkey came riding in on the saber-toothed tiger, racing over from where Ye Feng had hidden earlier.
With a faint smile, Ye Feng stroked Monkey’s silver-white fur and asked, “Where is the one I told you to watch?”
At that, Monkey raised a fluffy paw and pointed into the crowd.
Within the mass of people, the mysterious youth’s expression changed drastically, for the direction Monkey indicated was precisely his hiding place.
Before anyone could react, the youth cried out, “Brothers! Ye Feng is here to settle accounts with us. He has just fought that ice serpent, so he must be weakened now. If we all attack together, we can surely kill him!”
“Still stirring up trouble? You were the one who first incited this bunch of fools to attack Xiao Chong and the others, and now you’re at it again. Thinking of sneaking away in the chaos?” Ye Feng said leisurely, holding his broken blade and looking wholly unhurried.
“As a spiritual emperor, is this all you know how to do—carving words on trees and secretly fanning the flames?”
Hearing Ye Feng’s calm, measured voice, the youth’s face went instantly deathly pale, and his body began to tremble violently.
“You, you’re talking nonsense...” He pointed at Ye Feng and shouted in protest.
Yet what no one expected was that before he had even spoken, the mysterious youth had already quietly discarded his communication token on the ground.
By the time Ye Feng noticed, the light of teleportation had already risen. As the black robe concealing his face slipped away, the figure of the mysterious youth vanished without a trace.
“For all of you, born into wealth and nobility, you’re not even as smart as pigs. I know that many of you are merely watching the struggle between the Holy Land and the imperial family as if it were a spectacle. So let me ask you this: if the Holy Land seizes the Tianwu Empire, what will we become? We will become slaves of a fallen nation!”