"Ah... when did you get here?" Jin Ling jumped, startled. The person she thought was far behind her had suddenly appeared right in front of her.

"Hmph!" Chen Feng snorted in response.

"I didn't see you! Who... who are you, exactly?" Jin Ling asked anxiously.

She couldn't believe Chen Feng was ahead of her, and in her panic, she blurted out such a foolish question.

"Hmm?" Chen Feng was about to chide her when his gaze suddenly fixed on a spot on the island.

The sky was now obscured by dark clouds, and the moon had appeared. Under the moonlight, even with his vision, he could clearly make out things in the distance.

He pushed off his rock in an instant, leaving the surface and landing near the small island.

"Hey! What are you doing? I asked you a question!" Jin Ling, though still doubting he was the one who made the bet with her, couldn't deny it looked like him. After a moment of hesitation, she flew after Chen Feng.

"Footprints? How can there be footprints here?" Jin Ling spotted a series of shallow impressions near where Chen Feng stood and couldn't help but ask.

"Someone has been here, and they've been here for quite a while!" Chen Feng made his judgment.

"You're talking nonsense! How can you tell how long someone has been walking based only on footprints?" Jin Ling clearly didn't believe him.

"This is a small island. There's no vegetation. The sea wind is strong. Look at how the wind is blowing dust and sand across the surface. After half a day, these footprints would have been covered by sand. They wouldn't be visible anymore!" Chen Feng offered an unusually detailed explanation.

Jin Ling was surprised that he could deduce all that from just a few footprints and couldn't help but feel a touch of admiration, though she muttered under her breath, "You're just guessing!"

Chen Feng stared in the direction of the footprints, his brow furrowed, and took a few steps forward. Suddenly, he bent down and dug at the ground, uncovering a strange piece of clothing. It looked like someone had buried their original clothes here after changing into something else.

Chen Feng didn't pull the garment out. After taking a 'look' with his spiritual sense, he carefully covered the clothes with sand again.

"What are you doing? Just take it out!" Jin Ling called out from the side. Seeing Chen Feng ignore her, she impulsively kicked at the ground, but before the kick landed, her ankle was seized tightly in his grip.

"Don't touch anything here!" Chen Feng said coldly.

"And what if I do?" Jin Ling pouted, but her other foot stomped violently onto the ground, blasting a large crater in the sand. The clothes Chen Feng had carefully reburied were instantly unearthed, yet they seemed undamaged, regardless of their material.

"You are seeking death!" Anger flashed across Chen Feng's face.

"I'm seeking death, but do you dare let me die? Besides, can you even beat me?" Jin Ling retorted with a smug tilt of her mouth.

"The other person changing clothes here suggests they were planning something against the Fist Emperor Island. Your action will only alert them!" Chen Feng’s eyes flashed with a fierce light, two bolts of electricity striking straight toward Jin Ling.

Seeing Chen Feng’s ferocious expression, Jin Ling shivered involuntarily, feeling a flicker of fear. However, this emotion was instantly suppressed by the emergence of her strong, little princess temperament: "I wanted to alert them! What can you do about it? Hmph!"

With that, she defiantly glared at Chen Feng.

But before she could fully unleash that look, a sharp scream followed: "Ah... what are you doing?"

Thump! She plummeted into the sea.

"You dare seal my cultivation and throw me into the ocean? You don't want to live anymore!" Jin Ling leaped out of the water and charged straight at Chen Feng.

But before she reached him, a force rushed toward her horizontally, followed by another muffled cry, and she fell back into the sea again...

When Jin Ling jumped out of the water for the fifth time, she finally realized she was absolutely no match for the cool young man before her. Hovering in the air, she used her cultivation to dry her clothes and said resentfully, "You... I can't even be bothered to talk to you anymore!"

Chen Feng meticulously filled the crater she had created with the explosion, carefully placing the buried clothing back exactly as it was before flying up.

Although Jin Ling was furious, she no longer dared to argue with Chen Feng, yet admitting defeat outright felt unbearable. She immediately suggested, "Let's have another contest—whoever gets back first wins! If you lose this time, you have to dunk me in the sea twenty times... No, twenty times is too easy for you—one hundred times!"

Chen Feng glanced at her but paid no attention.

"What? Do you dare or not?" Jin Ling became anxious when he remained silent again.

"Whoever returns to ** first wins," Chen Feng stated.

"Fine! Whoever sees Sister Anjelisa first wins! I only slowed down because I didn't see you coming up behind me and worried you couldn't find the place. This time I'll use my full power; you definitely can't keep up!" Jin Ling explained.

"Alright, you go first," Chen Feng said.

"Good... No, you go first. I'll watch you leave to feel at ease. Who knows if you're playing dirty tricks?" Jin Ling said with a self-satisfied smirk.

"Fine then, I'll go first. Don't regret it," Chen Feng replied.

"I certainly won't regret it! Hurry up and go!" Jin Ling’s large eyes were turning, clearly plotting something.

Chen Feng shook his head. He simultaneously activated Spiritual Teleportation, Sky Dance Technique, and Domain Teleportation, vanishing from his spot in an instant.

In the past, Chen Feng flying so recklessly would have caused the high winds in the sky to rupture his blood vessels and make breathing impossible, but with his God-level physique, he could handle speeds ten times faster without any issue.

"Hey, wait for me..." Jin Ling was shocked when Chen Feng suddenly disappeared, but she didn't hesitate, flying back at top speed.

In less than a moment, she returned to their lodging, only to find Long Xiaoqiang and Anjelisa still waiting in the air. She scanned the area but couldn't see a shadow of Chen Feng.

"Huh? Hasn't he arrived yet? What's going on?" Jin Ling wondered confusingly.

"He... he was already here just now, and he went back to rest..." Anjelisa finally couldn't help but speak.

"How... how long has he been here?" Jin Ling asked.

"About half a minute, I guess!" Anjelisa replied.

"Ah... He's a lunatic..." Jin Ling felt dizzy, nearly passing out.

It took her that long just to fly over from that small island, and he was already back thirty minutes earlier... Compared to that speed, challenging him was the act of someone with a problem, wasn't it?

Dejected, she returned to the lodging without a word, inwardly cursing Chen Feng countless times in her anger.

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The next day, the sky was clear, without a single cloud.

The elders of the Phoenix Domain, Feng You and Feng Xiang, had recovered significantly; there were no longer major issues. The Purple Fire Crystal Stones were extremely beneficial for both restoring cultivation and strengthening the body.

Yesterday’s explosion had caused heavy injuries, but the timely intervention of the Fist Emperor Island Law Enforcement Team prevented many deaths. Nevertheless, the incident still stirred up a wave of unrest on Fist Emperor Island.

It was only after the Fist Emperor himself stepped forward to give assurances that the unrest finally subsided. However, precisely because of this incident, it was unanimously decided to compress the entire competition into a single day!

Finishing in one day meant no need to stay on Fist Emperor Island; participants could leave that very night.

Compressing the five events—Combat, Attack, Speed, Strength, and Endurance—into a single day presented a huge task. To accelerate the competition, they had no choice but to divide all participants who passed the preliminary rounds into four groups to compete simultaneously in the Attack, Speed, Strength, and Endurance trials.

The reason Combat was excluded from this simultaneous testing was easily understood: if someone collapsed on the spot from exhaustion, they wouldn't be able to participate in the other events anyway.

The champion of the Five Supremacy Grand Tournament would receive a quota for the Profound Heaven Mirror, and the top ten in each category also received significant rewards. After all, who would compete here if not for those generous prizes?

Of course, some true cultivators participated solely to prove themselves or gain fame.

The Attack, Speed, Strength, and Endurance trials were all quantifiable, so even if divided into groups, comparisons could still be made fairly, as no one would object to that.

Chen Feng, Reddy, and Jin Ling were bizarrely all assigned to the same group, while Ling Feng and others were placed in another.

Whether this was due to the Fist Emperor’s intervention after rescuing them or something else, they didn't know.

In previous Five Supremacy Grand Tournaments, Saint Domain experts did not participate. Achieving 81 in the 300-kilometer speed test was considered excellent.

"To avoid confusion, five people will start together in each group. I will call out the names, and those called should prepare to start!" The old man opened the roster and began calling names.

Chen Feng's name was not in the first group; he and Jin Ling were both assigned to the third group.

The first group finished their speed test quickly. The best time achieved was only 1 second—it seemed not many people reached the Saint Domain by the age of 50, and certainly, no one had speed close to Jin Ling’s.

The second group performed much better due to Reddy's presence. Reddy’s time was 3 minutes—a speed so terrifying that the old man nearly fainted with joy, thinking he had finally witnessed someone surpass the record, and by more than half!

However, his face darkened again when he realized Reddy had already reached the Saint Domain.

"Saint Domain experts used to participate in the Ten Supremacy Grand Tournament. The best record in that event was set by the Fist Emperor himself. His time for this test was... 1 minute! This record is the most unbelievable speed in the world, and you will never surpass it, so I won't demand that. But as a Saint Domain expert, you must at least achieve a time under 3 minutes and 30 seconds to be considered qualified!"

The old man shouted loudly, his gaze finally fixing on Jin Ling: "You are the daughter of Jin Xuanhu. Whether this discipline is broken or upheld now rests on you!"

"Count on me?" Jin Ling glanced at Chen Feng, grinding her teeth with resentment. If these words had been spoken yesterday, she would have had one hundred percent confidence, but now... not a shred of it remained!

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"The little princess is up! I didn't expect the first event to be the Speed Trial; this is the specialty of our Xuanhu Clan!" Elder Huben cackled, stepping forward in front of Long Yi and the others, proudly raising his eyebrows: "Long Yi, this is a speed contest. Shall we make a bet—will your Dragon God Lord win, or will our little princess win?"

Long Yi’s eyebrows rose at the provocative words, revealing a hint of anger, but he remained silent.

He didn't know Chen Feng's speed, so he dared not bet. The Jin Xuanhu clan specialized in speed; Chen Feng was likely to lose.

It was precisely because he lacked confidence that he said nothing, which only emboldened Elder Huben and the others.

"What, afraid to bet because you fear losing? Heh heh, let's make a small wager!" Elder Huben casually produced a disc-shaped weapon, smiling as he spoke: "How about betting with my Tiger Clan's fifth-ranked Divine Artifact, the [Golden Silk Spirit Disc]?"

Elder Huben’s voice was loud, and the unveiling of such an item immediately drew the attention of the surrounding crowd.

The [Golden Silk Spirit Disc] ranking fifth among the Divine Artifacts in the Tiger Domain, surpassing the [Striped Goldfish], attested to its immense power. It was a defensive Divine Artifact that could not only withstand the strongest attacks from a peak Saint Domain expert but also reflect three-tenths of the attack's power back!

This meant that anyone possessing this item would not only be invincible below the Saint Domain but could also reflect damage onto their opponent!

It was absolutely a valuable item!

The surrounding crowd simultaneously licked their lips, their eyes gleaming with greed.

Such a powerful Divine Artifact—only an idiot would pass it up!

Bet! Bet! Bet!

A wave of clamorous shouting erupted around them!

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