Qing Xuan the Old Monster and Maple Leaf were the respective lords of the Tianxue Demon Territory and the Golden Crow Demon Territory.
Seeing Chen Feng's cunning and his hidden aura, the brocaded-robed man suspected he was one of them. In his mind, only these two were worthy adversaries; he held no regard for anyone else.
"Hmph, you won't talk? Now that you're trapped within a formation specifically designed to counter the Saint Domain, let's see how you intend to escape!" The brocaded-robed man snorted again.
Chen Feng sneered, deliberately using a hoarse voice, "You wish to keep me? I fear this pathetic formation lacks the power for that!" With that, he activated his Mind Teleportation technique and vanished instantly from their encirclement.
He was merely at the Venerable level now. For them to use a formation meant to trap Saint Domains against him was a massive overreach—it was like using a cage forged from steel rebar as thick as a man's arm, intended for an elephant, to trap a mouse. A mouse could slip through the gaps in the rebar; how could it possibly hold it?
Furthermore, Chen Feng’s instant movement relied on his fist skills, barely mobilizing any energy fluctuations from the realm. Thus, even while constrained, escaping was not an issue.
"How is this possible?" The brocaded-robed man froze, disbelief etched in his eyes. To him, this was simply impossible.
"Without drawing upon the energy of heaven and earth elements, how... how can he teleport?"
It was no wonder he couldn't comprehend it. This was precisely what Zimo had been frustrated by earlier. By all logic, a Dou Sheng level expert could effortlessly kill a Dou Zun level practitioner. They controlled the elements of heaven and earth within a thousand-meter radius, meaning that within this range, a Dou Zun not only couldn't teleport but would even struggle to deploy their domain.
If they couldn't teleport, wasn't a Dou Zun simply a lamb waiting to be slaughtered once their domain deployment was hampered?
Yet, Chen Feng had completely overturned this notion. Space was locked down. Elements were controlled. And yet... he still managed to teleport away!
Suddenly, one figure flashed in his mind: "It's him?" the brocaded-robed man ground out through clenched teeth.
Kozmo had reported Chen Feng’s ability to perform this strange teleportation once before. Initially, the brocaded-robed man dismissed it as exaggeration and paid it no mind. Today, seeing Reshil casually capture him, he hadn't worried about it. Recalling it now brought a surge of furious humiliation to his face.
A supreme expert, the master of one of the three great powers on the Gulf Continent, being toyed with by a mere second-tier Dou Zun—how could he not be enraged?
Because he had been preoccupied with the plans against the two great Demon Territories for today, he hadn't paid any serious attention to this youth who possessed the Boundless Fire Domain. Although the innate Five Elements Extreme Domains offered a tremendous advantage in resisting heavenly tribulations, generally allowing for independent condensation of a divine persona to achieve godhood, that strength was only realized after reaching the late Saint Domain stage. As a mere second-tier Dou Zun, he truly hadn't considered him a threat.
Who knew that such carelessness would disrupt his entire plan? It was detestable!
"You think you can escape?" With an instant movement, he appeared before Chen Feng, his fist clenched, smashing towards Chen Feng in mid-air.
Once cultivation reached the Saint Domain, Dou Techniques could still significantly increase in power. However, using a Dou Technique against a mere Dou Zun would be utterly disgraceful.
The brocaded-robed man employed his most ordinary punch, yet the power behind it was countless times stronger than what Kozmo and the others could muster. Before the fist even reached Chen Feng, he felt completely unable to evade; the punch's force sealed off every possible retreat, making it impossible to escape a blow in any direction.
Moreover, the oppressive might of this single punch was too overwhelming. Even with the "Divine Light Mansion" shielding him, he felt his internal energy falter, his vision swimming, nearly causing him to tumble from the sky.
"Not good, even with the Divine Light Mansion, I might be killed!" Chen Feng’s momentum surged, and he instantly expanded his domain radius to four meters around his body. The "Divine Light Mansion" enlarged commensurately.
If a bulletproof vest is worn tight against the body, even if the bullet cannot penetrate, the impact force can still injure. But if the vest were suspended four meters away from his body, as long as the bullet couldn't penetrate, it wouldn't harm him at all.
This was precisely the goal of expanding the "Divine Light Mansion" now—only by doing so could he withstand the opponent's tyrannical punch.
"What use is expanding your domain? A Dou Zun is still a Dou Zun!" the brocaded-robed man snorted, and his fist struck Chen Feng's domain with immense force!
"Bang..." A deafening crash echoed, and the point where the fist met the domain released a dazzling white light.
"What's going on?" The brocaded-robed man's mind stalled once more; he was close to a breakdown.
In front of him, instead of the expected sound of the domain shattering and his opponent being smashed into pulp, it was... as if the punch had struck a balloon.
What was even more infuriating was that the youth had actually used the momentum of that single punch to instantly propel himself hundreds of meters away!
"Surround him!" the brocaded-robed man roared.
Instantly, a hundred figures swarmed in, including five Vice Lords. Kozmo and Reshil were among them.
No matter how strange this youth's trickery was, if they let him escape this time, the loss of face would be too great.
No one would ever know that he had hidden the pictorial record on a servant boy, but if this youth succeeded in escaping after burning the main hall into an inferno, how could the Ziyuan Demon Territory maintain its footing on this continent?
"Attack!" the brocaded-robed man commanded with a great shout.
One hundred people, including six late-stage Saint Domain experts—what kind of destructive power would erupt when they attacked simultaneously? It was enough to cause space itself to rupture and annihilate.
Although Kozmo and the others didn't understand why this person, whose domain spanned three or four meters wide, deserved the agony of being shredded by rupturing space, they unhesitatingly executed their Lord's command.
Instantly, light, pressure, elemental attacks, energy barrages... everything rained down upon the domain surrounding Chen Feng like a violent storm!
The power of this combined assault was too immense. The very space they encircled immediately began to shatter, and rampant spatial turbulence churned around Chen Feng's domain.
Due to the excessive energy, everyone was forced to retreat several kilometers.
In a radius of nearly a thousand meters centered on Chen Feng, everything was torn into countless fragments by the spatial annihilation, vanishing into nothingness.
A scorched, massive pit appeared on the ground; everything within the circular depression was completely gone.
"This time, he must be..." The brocaded-robed man let out a breath of relief. If a person couldn't die from spatial fragmentation, he shouldn't be called a man; he would be a god.
As for the question of whether the Heavenly Diagram of Space would be destroyed, he didn't even bother to consider it. The Xuantian Treasure Mirror was a relic left by the Xuantian Demon God; it surely wouldn't be harmed by their attacks. It was precisely this certainty that made him so brazen in ordering everyone to kill Chen Feng together.
Kozmo and Reshil exchanged glances, deeply fearful of the might unleashed in this attack. Such a powerful assault, they suspected, even their Lord might not be able to withstand completely!
They didn't know how this person in the center had offended their Lord to incur such fury, but it seemed certain that this person was now reduced to mincemeat!
The turbulence in the air had not fully dissipated, and just as everyone was certain that the person in the center was surely dead, Chen Feng’s voice rang out from within: "If there isn't a second wave, I'll be leaving now..."
With that, he activated a Mind Teleportation technique, instantly appearing a hundred meters away. Dozens of consecutive instant movements had already carried him far beyond the besiegers' encirclement.
If the "Divine Light Mansion" could withstand true spatial turbulence, it certainly wouldn't care about such an attack.
Hearing Chen Feng's wildly arrogant taunt, everyone froze in place, unable to believe their eyes or ears, seemingly stunned into idiocy.
"He... he's not dead?" Kozmo's eyes widened like lanterns as he looked at Reshil, only to see Reshil staring back at him with equally wide eyes.
"He survived spatial shattering? What kind of cultivation is this..."
Kozmo then looked toward Chen Feng, hesitating momentarily, before his expression suddenly shifted.
The purple-red flame domain, the bizarre instant movement that only covered one meter at a time—could it be...?
"Is he Chen Feng? That kid who uses the Boundless Fire Domain?" he suddenly roared.
"What did you say?" Reshil gasped upon hearing this.
Chen Feng had been captured by him. Along the way, he hadn't played any tricks, showing no hint of anything special. How could he survive spatial annihilation?
"Keep chasing him!" the brocaded-robed man yelled. Hearing his Lord's shout, Reshil shivered, abandoned his thoughts, and quickly followed behind him, chasing the figure ahead.
"Boom..."
The pursuers were still behind, but countless magic spells and Dou Qi blasts slammed against the domain surrounding Chen Feng. However, to everyone's utter astonishment, no matter how fierce the attacks, the domain around the figure ahead showed absolutely no change, as if these assaults had no effect whatsoever.
And what was even more irritating was that the opponent was actually using these attacks to increase his speed further...
"This guy is strange. Stop using energy attacks, try physical attacks!" someone suddenly shouted from the crowd.
"Swish, swish..."
Lances, clubs, stones, arrows, tree trunks torn from the ground... A rain of weapons suddenly filled the sky.
But these objects, upon striking the purplish-red domain ahead, only caused his speed to increase more rapidly, failing to cause the slightest injury to the target.
"Try breaking it!"
Another volley of arrows followed, but the result was predictably fruitless. After this chase, the figure ahead was clearly on the verge of escaping the small island.
"Everyone get out of the way..." A majestic voice boomed; the brocaded-robed man was growing anxious.
Everyone cleared a path, and the brocaded-robed man's aura rapidly ascended. In an instant, the surrounding air seemed to stagnate, becoming incredibly viscous, making it difficult for anyone to move.
"Wave Light Slash!" he shouted, his eyes wide open, unleashing a Saint Domain Dou Technique from his hands! (To be continued. To find out what happens next, please log on to www**m for more chapters, to support the author, and to support genuine reading!)
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