Restoring the True Appearance

"Hmph!" Xiang Tianwen coldly snorted. "Every single one of you acts so sanctimonious, speaking such pretty words. The way I see it, you clearly just want to snatch Daoist Master Qingfeng's Immortal King weapons!"

The area instantly erupted into an uproar.

The prodigies who were once familiar with Xiang Tianwen looked at him in disbelief.

Brother Xiang was never like this before. How did he suddenly go mad today?

"Insolent!" Martial Uncle Qin angrily rebuked.

Others might give the Sun-Obscuring Sect some face, but their Heaven-Severing Cult would not!

The Heaven-Severing Cult was a top-tier faction; the Sun-Obscuring Sect simply could not be compared to it.

"Xiang Tianwen, you are spouting nonsense! We are capturing him clearly to give the Wan family an explanation. It was Daoist Qingfeng who broke the rules first!"

The mockery on Xiang Tianwen's face grew even stronger, but in his heart, he felt extremely delighted. The feeling of having someone backing you up was truly not bad.

"Senior Qin, I respect you as a senior, but even a senior cannot spout such nonsense. That Wan Tiancheng deserved to die. Who told him to be so weak that he couldn't even withstand a few hundred of Daoist Master Qingfeng's talismans?

With such feeble strength, he might have been crushed to death by a flying meteorite any day he stepped out of his house. Can you blame Daoist Master Qingfeng for that?"

Martial Uncle Qin was so furious he almost exploded. He never expected Xiang Tianwen to be so shameless as to invert black and white like this.

"Fellow Daoist Ye, hurry and take your young master away!" Martial Uncle Qin growled.

Who would have thought that Xiang Tianwen's Dao Protector, Elder Ye, would actually step onto the field, stand shoulder to shoulder with Xiang Tianwen, and shout with an awe-inspiring face, "My young master's decision is my decision!"

The crowd felt as if they had been struck by lightning. The young one had gone mad, and the old one had gone mad too.

For a Quasi-Immortal King of unknown origin, an old man and a young man actually chose to make enemies of all the major factions!

Xiang Tianwen also said with a stern face, "Today, if any of you want to touch Daoist Master Qingfeng, then you'll have to first step over..."

"Get the f*ck out of the way!"

Bang!

Before Xiang Tianwen could finish speaking, an angry curse came from behind him, followed immediately by a massive force striking his buttocks.

His entire body uncontrollably flew out, landing face-first in the dirt like a dog eating mud.

Flying out alongside him was Elder Ye.

"Did you two know you were blocking this Emperor's way?"

Gu Qingfeng's impatient voice rang out.

Everyone present was dumbfounded, looking at Gu Qingfeng in disbelief. For a moment, they couldn't even react.

What was going on!?

Xiang Tianwen and Elder Ye were risking their lives to stand up for you, yet you kicked them both flying with two kicks?

However, something even more unbelievable to the crowd was yet to come.

Only two thuds were heard.

The kicked-away Xiang Tianwen and Elder Ye had somehow scrambled up from the ground. After scrambling up, they didn't stand; instead, they directly knelt on the ground facing Gu Qingfeng's direction and kowtowed like madmen.

"Calm your anger, my Lord! Calm your anger, my Lord! We did not do it on purpose. It was truly because we saw these people daring to mock you, my Lord, and we couldn't hold back for a moment."

The two trembled as they begged for mercy.

Such a lowly posture formed a stark contrast with their previous righteous and awe-inspiring appearance, where they looked death in the face against a group of Immortal Kings.

The crowd watched in stunned silence. Were these really the same people?

But at this moment, Martial Uncle Qin felt that something was not quite right.

Xiang Tianwen and Elder Ye's behavior, first risking offending all factions for Daoist Qingfeng, and now, after being kicked by Daoist Qingfeng, not only not getting angry but instead kowtowing and apologizing in terror, all these attitudes indicated one thing: in their minds, Daoist Qingfeng's weight absolutely far exceeded the sum of all the major factions.

They dared to face the major factions for Daoist Qingfeng without a trace of fear on their faces, yet they directly knelt because of a single angry curse from Daoist Qingfeng. This...

Martial Uncle Qin's heart suddenly skipped a beat. If his guess was correct, then the Daoist Qingfeng before him probably had an unimaginable background.

"Who exactly are you, sir?" Martial Uncle Qin asked Gu Qingfeng solemnly.

At this point, he had to probe Gu Qingfeng's bottom line instead of acting rashly, so as to avoid bringing about a disaster.

Facing the inquiry, Gu Qingfeng smiled faintly. "This Emperor is named Gu Qingfeng, just an ordinary Quasi-Immortal King."

Gu Qingfeng!?

Why did this name sound so familiar?

Martial Uncle Qin kept feeling as if he had heard this name somewhere before.

However, at this time, the nearby Dao Child Jietian trembled as if he had fallen into an ice cave and shouted, "Gu Qingfeng!? Could you be the World-Destroying Demon Emperor Gu Qingfeng!!"

Dao Child Jietian was the first to react because he paid great attention to news about the World-Destroying Demon Emperor.

After all, he was a top-tier prodigy and possessed great destiny, like a Child of Destiny. According to usual experience, people like him were born with a mission.

Dao Child Jietian had also always felt that his mission was highly likely to be just like in the storybooks he read as a child: to slay the World-Destroying Demon Emperor and save the world!

Precisely because he paid attention, he understood the terror of the World-Destroying Demon Emperor better than anyone else. Such an existence was absolutely not something that he, who had not yet fully grown up, could match.

The crowd was still somewhat doubtful about the three words Gu Qingfeng, but as soon as the words World-Destroying Demon Emperor came out, the entire venue was shocked!

A single stone stirred up a thousand waves!

The scene instantly fell into an uproar. Everyone's gaze focused on Gu Qingfeng's face, and everyone's eyes carried a trace of doubting fear.

Gu Qingfeng couldn't be bothered to keep them in suspense. He directly waved his large hand across his face. A demonic light flashed, and his entire person shed his disguise, restoring his true appearance.

The gentle and jade-like face, the meticulous Daoist bun, and the black Daoist robe all disappeared.

In their place was a man with a stalwart and disdainful figure, profound as an abyss and demonic. His eyes emitted a scarlet demonic light, his black hair danced wildly, and his black-and-gold imperial robe moved without wind, fluttering loudly.

An extremely evil, terrifying aura that looked down upon the world erupted from his body and spread across the entire venue.

A monstrous demonic might soared into the sky. Standing there alone, he gave people the feeling as if they had walked into hell.

One man was hell itself!

"The... the World-Destroying Demon Emperor!!"

"What!! It actually really is the World-Destroying Demon Emperor!"

"How is this possible! Isn't the World-Destroying Demon Emperor active in the Six Great Forbidden Zones? Why would he appear here!?"

Now the crowd finally understood why he could take out hundreds of Immortal King talismans and ten Immortal King weapons.

This was all from killing Immortal Kings, dammit!!

Some of the slower-reacting ones were still standing foolishly in place exclaiming, while the smarter ones like Dao Child Jietian and Martial Uncle Qin directly turned around and ran without a second word.

They stirred up all their magical power, exploding to the extreme, completely ignoring whether their bodies could withstand it. They even successively executed several secret arts that burned blood and erupted qi, causing their speed to climb higher and higher.

However, when they flew to the edge of the Biluo Lake.

A light curtain as pitch-black as ink appeared out of thin air. Like a large bowl, it was inverted over the entire Biluo Lake.

Bang! Bang!

The people who couldn't brake in time crashed directly into it like headless flies hitting a wall. Seeing stars from the impact, they plummeted straight down from the sky.