Chen Feng’s injuries had recovered somewhat along the way.
Yet the fatigue in his body only grew worse.
He knew his body could not keep healing itself indefinitely.
He needed proper rest before he could recover his strength.
If he kept pushing himself past his limits,
there would eventually come a time when he could no longer recover.
But for now, he could only grit his teeth and press on.
Not only for the few disciples he had left, but also for Great Xia.
Su Yuanshan no longer paid any attention to the remaining resisters.
There were only a handful of them left anyway.
Sooner or later, they would be swallowed up by his forces.
He reached out toward Chen Feng.
An immense pulling force instantly descended upon Chen Feng’s body,
dragging him uncontrollably forward.
At the same time, the force propelled Su Yuanshan rapidly toward Chen Feng.
In what seemed like an instant, the two collided.
Chen Feng immediately activated his Indestructible Golden Body.
A barrage of martial techniques followed, relentlessly striking at Su Yuanshan.
Su Yuanshan wore a mocking smile.
With a casual palm strike—the Frost God Palm—he shattered all of Chen Feng’s attacks.
Even the Indestructible Golden Body was broken apart.
At that very moment, a layer of frost covered Chen Feng’s body.
The icy chill seeped deep into his bones.
Gritting his teeth, he swallowed back the sweet taste of blood rising in his throat.
Once again, he summoned the Indestructible Golden Body, intending to hold Su Yuanshan back by force.
The moment Chen Feng saw that Su Yuanshan’s hands had recovered,
he knew he stood no chance of winning.
All he wanted was to delay Su Yuanshan a little longer in his final moments,
so that the people on his side would not have to face Su Yuanshan in utter despair.
Seeing Chen Feng prepared to die, Su Yuanshan chuckled and said,
“You came back quickly enough!”
“But it’s a shame you can’t hold on anymore!”
Chen Feng clenched his fists.
He stared fixedly at Su Yuanshan.
“I am their hero of Great Xia. Even if I can’t hold on, I can only fight to the very end!”
Meanwhile, Zhao Bing had also reached his limit.
Even human strength had its bounds.
No matter how formidable his swordsmanship was, the vital energy of a Grandmaster would eventually run dry.
The Martial God fighting him
was covered in wounds as well.
He knew he was about to win.
But it would be an exceedingly miserable victory.
He had barely managed to injure Zhao Bing at all.
He had only gained the upper hand by exhausting his opponent’s vital energy.
For a Martial Saint to defeat a Grandmaster through attrition—
it was a humiliation he had never imagined he would suffer in his life.
Even if he won this battle, it would remain the greatest stain on his record.
Compared with Zhao Bing,
Angelina and Amir could no longer hold on.
Two fists could not fend off four hands.
And vital energy, too, could eventually be depleted.
Amir kept striking out with his palms to fend off his enemies, without a moment to catch his breath.
Although Angelina could devour her enemies’ vital energy, her offensive and defensive abilities were too weak.
Her body was already covered in wounds.
Then Amir was struck from behind, a single punch shattering his internal organs.
After losing her partner, Angelina was killed in the very next instant by the combined attack of the crowd.
[Congratulations! You have achieved the Renowned Teacher accomplishment.]
[Your twelfth disciple, Amir, has died.]
[The master will inherit the disciple’s vital energy.]
[Reward: 914 Vital Energy.]
……
[Congratulations! You have achieved the Renowned Teacher accomplishment.]
[Your eleventh disciple, Angelina, has died.]
[The master will inherit the disciple’s vital energy.]
[Reward: 1,739 Vital Energy.]
Just after Chen Feng once again withstood a strike from Su Yuanshan, a notification he least wanted to hear suddenly rang out in his mind.
“Two more disciples have died!”
“Perhaps I shouldn’t have taken on so many disciples just to increase my strength.”
“Then you wouldn’t have had to take part in this operation simply because you were the disciples of a hero of Daxia.”
Chen Feng looked at his vitality points. At that moment, they had broken through to 171,575.
His heart was filled with boundless sorrow.
Most of these vitality points—
had been bought with the lives of his disciples.
The lives of eight disciples in all.
Xiao Ruohan, Liu Weiwei, Su Yan, Ye Xing, Angelina, Yang Xuan, Amir, and Anthony.
If he had known this would happen,
he would rather have remained an ordinary person.
He never wanted the disciples he took in to all become sacrifices for him.
Now, every time his vitality increased,
Chen Feng felt a surge of guilt.
Tiandu City.
When Jin Youxi saw the surveillance footage on the news showing her master clashing with Su Yuanshan once again,
a deep reluctance welled up inside her.
But after seeing her master beaten by Su Yuanshan without the slightest power to fight back,
she knew she could no longer hesitate.
Even if she had to die, she did not want to watch her master die before her eyes.
She took out the photoshopped wedding portrait she had been holding against her chest.
She studied it carefully one last time.
Then she hugged it tightly once more.
After that, she closed her eyes.
“Master, keep fighting!”
“You’ll always be the best!”
The next moment,
Jin Youxi activated all her vitality.
Then she severed her own heart meridian!
Ever since Su Yan had told her that every time one of Chen Feng’s disciples died, his strength would increase dramatically,
Jin Youxi had been observing in secret.
By the time Su Yan died, Jin Youxi had already confirmed that what Su Yan said was true.
From that moment on,
she had secretly made up her mind.
Because to Jin Youxi, her master was more important than her own life.
…
The Kunlun Mountains.
Another notification rang out in Chen Feng’s mind.
This time, he froze completely where he stood.
【Congratulations on achieving the Master of Masters title.】
【Second disciple Jin Youxi has died.】
【The master will inherit the vitality belonging to the disciple.】
【Reward: 50,382 vitality points.】
“How could this happen!”
“How could Youxi have died!”
“Why? Why did this happen? Wasn’t Youxi in Tiandu, looking after Shuangshuang?”
Chen Feng could no longer control his emotions.
Tears welled up uncontrollably in his eyes.
The unyielding spirit that had carried him this far—
the resilience he had maintained until now—
collapsed completely at this moment.
The sudden news of his beloved disciple Jin Youxi’s death
instantly crushed the tension that had kept his spirit taut.
At that moment,
he no longer had the mind to concern himself with Su Yuanshan.
He only wanted to find Jin Youxi.
He only wanted to know why Jin Youxi had died.
Chen Feng’s martial-art phantom suddenly threw back its head and let out a furious roar.
His broken horn began to grow back at astonishing speed.
The scales covering his body shone brilliantly.
A vitality level of more than 220,000 shot into the heavens, dyeing the sky crimson.
Even Su Yuanshan stared at Chen Feng in shock.
He had no idea what had happened.
Just moments ago, his son-in-law had been completely crushed by him. Yet all of a sudden, Chen Feng’s vitality had surged once again,
reaching an utterly inconceivable level.
Chen Feng paid no further attention to Su Yuanshan. His body transformed into a bolt of lightning and sped toward Tiandu.
“What’s wrong with that kid?”
Su Yuanshan could not understand why Chen Feng’s condition had become so strange.
All he knew was that Chen Feng’s emotions had fluctuated violently just now.
And for no apparent reason at all.
Seeing that Chen Feng was about to leave, he immediately shouted,
“Trying to leave?”
“Did you ask for my permission?”
He instantly unleashed the Star-Absorbing Technique, forcefully pulling at Chen Feng’s body.
Chen Feng’s eyes were bloodshot. He spun around and struck with the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms.
In an instant, ten thousand dragons roared!
The air was saturated with an aura of brutality and rage.
Its power was even greater than before.
Su Yuanshan used the Frost Palm to shatter the dragon phantoms, then forcibly blocked Chen Feng’s path.
“This all happened because of you!”
Chen Feng’s voice trembled, heavy with sorrow.
At that moment, his mind was filled with the image of his beloved disciple—the girl who loved to act spoiled, who had devoted herself to him wholeheartedly.
But now, You Xi was already dead.
And he could not even see her one last time.
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