Chapter Ninety-Three: Revealed

With a single stroke of the axe, the beasts surrounding them were instantly swept aside, clearing a passage through the encirclement.

"Move!" The crown prince gripped his spiked cudgel and, under the protection of several guards, fled swiftly toward the direction where Ye Feng stood.

In that brief interval, several more lost their lives to the jaws of the beasts.

"Tell the others from the remaining three sides to close in and seal them all off," Ye Feng said, leading the charge with a broken blade in hand, heading straight to intercept the people of the empire.

Elsewhere, under the desperate resistance of several experts, more than a dozen young men also succeeded in escaping the beasts' encirclement.

Boom....

However, just as they broke free, a huge golden hand came crashing down from the sky.

After releasing a dragon-capture strike, Ye Feng paid it no mind and, broken blade in hand, plunged directly into the enemy ranks.

After all, this was not a true fight to the death; one could simply throw out a talisman and escape. But what these people had done earlier had completely enraged Ye Feng.

At this moment, he showed not the slightest mercy. All he wanted was to kill the man before him as swiftly as possible.

"Ye Feng, so all of this was your doing?" The crown prince, his face deathly pale, had recognized him the moment he appeared.

Watching Ye Feng, whose spiritual power surged wildly throughout his body, the crown prince clenched his teeth and roared with anger and unwillingness, "We bear you no grudge. Why are you slaughtering the fine sons of my empire?"

By now, the people from the other three directions had all arrived as well, surrounding the dozen or so men before them in layers.

Ye Feng put away the broken blade and looked at him coldly. "When anyone decides to do anything, they should think about the price they will have to pay. You harmed the woman of Ye Feng; you should have been prepared for this."

At that, after a moment of stunned realization, the crown prince suddenly understood.

His expression darkened. Pointing at the girl who was still extremely weak, he laughed bitterly. "In your eyes, are the fine sons of an empire not even worth one woman? Have you considered what impact this will have on both countries if my father learns of it?"

In this world, the strong prey on the weak. The status of women was indeed much as it had been in ancient times.

In the eyes of many in power, winning over a powerful subordinate was worth far more than having a woman beautiful as a flower.

What they did not know was that Ye Feng came from a more advanced society. The belief, spoken by people in his former world, that women held up half the sky, had deeply influenced him.

In his view, women were the same as men, with no distinction of rank or worth.

Moreover, the one they had pursued was the goddess in Ye Feng's heart. Even without his former-world convictions, with his vengeful and unforgiving nature, there was no way he would let these people off lightly.

"All I can say is that you know me far too little. I, Ye Feng, never concern myself with how big a mess I make. If the two countries are to go to war, I, Ye Feng, will certainly charge at the very front. And one more thing: whoever dares lay a hand on my woman must first step over my corpse." Staring fiercely at the crown prince before him, Ye Feng continued, "I do not wish to take things too far. Hand over your talismans, or die by our hands."

To the crown prince, Ye Feng's words were nothing more than an absurd excuse made on the spot.

In his view, the cause of the matter might well have been their delegation entering the capital of Tianwu that afternoon. For a nation, dignity mattered more than any woman.

"Then let us fight!" Behind the crown prince, the young man wielding a battle axe suddenly unleashed his spiritual power in a frenzy. In a single stride, he came before the crown prince and shouted, "A fight it is!"

From behind, under the constant eye signals of the baby-faced He Tao, Ye Feng suddenly came to himself and said, "I will not bully you. Choose the strongest among you to fight me. If I lose, I will spare your lives."

It was obvious that after a single annihilating battle that had been virtually free of danger, the name Ye Feng had already carved itself deeply into the hearts of many young powerhouses of Tianwu.

And now, with the enemy weak and his side strong, this was the perfect chance for Ye Feng to show his might once again.

"Once a gentleman gives his word?"

"A fast horse and one whip!" Ye Feng answered the young man with the battle axe.

After Ye Feng finished speaking, everyone present stepped back, leaving enough space for the two of them to fight.

Their eyes locked. No one spoke, yet their auras continued to rise.

At that moment, everyone could feel that, invisibly, the two had already begun their battle.

Boom...

At some moment, a sudden explosive crack rang out in the void, and both figures shot forward at the same time.

Holding the broken blade in his right hand, Ye Feng's left hand turned dazzling gold in the instant he lunged.

Dragon-Capturing Hand...

A huge fist shadow was unleashed the moment Ye Feng's words fell.

Borrowing the power of the dragon-serpent demon king, the dragon-capturing martial technique Ye Feng used now made the golden fist covered in layer upon layer of scale-like patterns, as if each one were a dragon scale.

Seeing Ye Feng's heavy, forceful punch barreling toward him, the man opposite refused to yield. Spiritual power surged wildly through his body and poured into the battle axe in his hand.

Tiger's Roar...

With a slashing sweep of the battle axe, a lifelike tiger suddenly leaped out from within it.

Roar....

The beast king roared, and at the very instant the golden fist approached, the tiger opened its blood盆 mouth and swallowed the fist shadow, which was as large as a millstone.

At once, the people of the empire burst into cheers. In the first clash, their side had utterly overwhelmed Ye Feng. Such a result was undoubtedly the most effective way to raise morale.

But was the outcome truly as they imagined?

Boom....

Suddenly, the entire tiger began to blaze with golden light. In the astonished gazes of the crowd, the tiger formed entirely of spiritual power slowly shrank in size.

Not long after, everyone finally understood what had happened.

It was not the tiger that had grown smaller, but the golden fist shadow it had swallowed that was madly devouring the tiger's own spiritual power.

Hum...

As the tiger completely vanished, that golden fist shadow became even more distinct.

Upon it, the crowd could clearly see a huge dragon, like a tattoo, emerging into view.

As Ye Feng clenched his fist and struck violently, the fist shadow in the void also came crashing down.

In that moment of urgency, the young man swiftly thrust his battle axe across to block.

Boom....

The next instant, heaven and earth seemed to split apart. After striking the battle axe, the golden fist shadow exploded with tremendous force. A stormlike wave of dense spiritual power swept outward in all directions.

Everyone's faces changed in shock. With just a single blow, it carried such power.

Within the Tianwu camp, some could no longer restrain their excitement and shouted out loud.

Only Ye Feng, standing in the midst of the battlefield, finally turned serious at this moment, his eyes suddenly sharpening like those of a wolf.