170: Chapter 170 The Chosen One's Morals Shattered!

In the next moment, everyone in Lin Feng's squad underwent a drastic change in expression and whipped their heads around to look back.

They saw it.

At the end of the passage they had come from.

A Flying Boat, pitch-black all over and styled with an extreme, overbearing magnificence.

It was charging toward them with an utterly arrogant and tyrannical posture!

That Flying Boat!

It wasn't following the only correct safe path in Lin Feng's memory at all!

It wasn't even traveling within the passage!

It was crushing through space in a straight line directly from the abyss's thick, ink-like black mist.

Crashing into the abyss!

Violence!

Pure violence!

Extreme violence!

Everything along the way was like paper before it!

The Immortal-Eating Flowers that could instantly plunge a Soul Transformation Stage Cultivator into an illusion and turn them into a dried corpse?

Before the Flying Boat even got close, just the invisible force field at its front swept past.

That vast, eerie sea of blood-red flowers withered, shriveled, and turned to ash in an instant, dissipating into the air!

The Ancient Gravity Formation where a single wrong step...

...would result in being instantly crushed into mincemeat by ten thousand times gravity?

Boom!

The force field at the front of the Flying Boat merely brushed past lightly.

The space in that area let out a muffled boom.

The entire Formation collapsed instantly!

The violent gravity lost control and exploded in reverse, blasting a bottomless crater into that patch of ground!

And those invisible spatial rifts that could silently slice through even an Immortal Artifact!

They were completely useless before the Flying Boat.

Wherever the Flying Boat passed, those spatial rifts...

...were actually forcibly smoothed out!

To the point that even space itself let out an eerie sound!

What the hell...

It wasn't avoiding traps at all!

It was forcibly crushing this dead-end road full of traps into a flat and open thoroughfare!

For Lin Feng's squad, who had been cautious and walking on thin ice...

...as if dancing on the edge of a blade with every step, the visual impact of this scene was no less than a nuclear bomb exploding in their brains!

The foresight they were so proud of!

The supreme adoration the squad members had just established for their master!

Before this "violent demolition" style of travel...

...it all seemed so childish and laughable.

What was the difference between them and a clown?

On the deck of the Flying Boat.

Chu Xiao was lying bored on a soft couch with his eyes slightly closed.

Princess Ji Ziyue carried a cup of freshly brewed spirit tea, trotted to his side, and called out sweetly, "Brother Chu Xiao, have some tea! Look outside, there are so many pretty fireworks!"

As she spoke, her small finger pointed out the window.

There, an Ancient Sword Formation had sensed the aura of the Flying Boat.

It activated on its own.

Thousands of terrifying Sword Qi, enough to strangle Void Returning experts, soared into the sky.

Those Sword Qi were dense and grand in momentum!

However, when these Sword Qi approached within a hundred feet of the dutian boat.

They struck an invisible barrier.

Then, like real fireworks, they exploded with a bang!

They then turned into a sky full of brilliant specks of light, which was quite beautiful.

"Hmm, it's alright."

Chu Xiao didn't even bother to open his eyes, responding casually.

He opened his mouth and drank the spirit tea Princess Ji Ziyue handed over in one gulp.

To him, so-called Restrictions and spatial rifts were simply a joke under the shroud of the hongmeng creation cauldron's aura.

It's a complete joke..

This dutian boat gifted by the Wanbao Pavilion was no different from driving a bumper car in his hands.

It emphasized doing as one pleased and having a clear mind.

On the other side, Yuan Muyu's eyes watched the "fireworks" constantly exploding outside the window.

Her heart was equally filled with exclamation.

She could sense that even a single wisp of the aftermath from those "fireworks"...

...would be enough to leave her heavily injured or dead!

But before this Flying Boat, they were truly only fit to be fireworks!

And that carved-in-pink-and-jade little loli Artifact Spirit was leaning against the window.

Her large eyes were fixed on the interior of the abyss.

Visibly, her nose sniffed frantically, and her drool got everywhere.

"So fragrant... such a fragrant smell... Master, there's good food down there!"

Boom—!

The dutian boat carried a deafening sound, with no intention of slowing down at all.

It flew directly over the heads of Lin Feng's squad!

As if they were just a few insignificant pebbles by the roadside, or a few ants blocking the way.

They weren't worth paying any attention to at all!

The violent airflow kicked up a sky full of dust, drenching the four members of Lin Feng's squad from head to toe.

That airflow was so powerful that even Man Niu, who had the strongest physique, was blown into a stumble.

He almost fell flat on his butt!

After the Flying Boat roared past and sped toward the center of the abyss.

That terrifying roar gradually faded away.

Inside the passage, a deathly silence returned once more.

Lin Feng and his three teammates remained in their head-upturned posture.

They stood dazed on the spot.

Each of them was covered in dust and in a complete mess.

The expressions on their faces were identical—dazed, bewildered...

...and full of disbelief.

Their worldviews, their understanding of cultivation, in those few short breaths just now...

...had been crushed into dust by that unreasonable Flying Boat!

Especially Shi Potian and Leng Yuexin.

Shi Potian... the Artifact Refining maniac, was staring intently in the direction the Flying Boat had disappeared.

His whole body was trembling violently.

It wasn't fear, but shock and fanaticism!

"A miracle... that's a miracle!"

His lips trembled as he spoke incoherently.

"What kind of Artifact Refining technique... what kind of material... could create a monster like that which ignores the Laws!"

"That force field is simply an absolute Domain!"

"Impossible! There's absolutely no way such a Magic Treasure exists in this world!"

His eyes were filled with obsession for that Flying Boat.

It was like Xiao Chunan seeing a beautiful woman!

While Leng Yuexin, the woman proficient in Formations, had a pale face.

Her delicate body was swaying.

What did she see?

She saw all Laws being destroyed!

She saw the path of Formations turned to ash!

What gates of life and death, what reversal of Yin and Yang—before absolute power...

...they were all a joke!

One strength to break all Laws!

So this saying was actually true!

In this world, even the most powerful Formation would be blown apart by absolute power.

In an instant, a crack appeared in her Dao Heart!

And Man Niu, the honest young man, was the most direct.

His legs were shaking like sieves.

His teeth chattered as he looked in the direction the Flying Boat disappeared, his eyes full of fear!

"Monster... that's a monster..."

However, the shock of the three of them combined...

...couldn't compare to the impact Lin Feng felt in his heart at this moment!

Lin Feng's brain buzzed, and it went blank!

He froze on the spot as if struck by Nine Heavens divine lightning.

Every cell in his body was trembling frantically!

Smugness?

Confidence?

Mockery?

Everything, at the moment that Flying Boat flew over his head...

...was crushed to pieces!

His greatest reliance was the memory of his Rebirth!

At this moment, by that unreasonable absolute strength...

...by that terrifying Magic Treasure that could be called "money power," it was crushed into nonexistence!

Laughable!

Too laughable!

He, Lin Feng, relying on his memories from his past life, had been cautious and walking on thin ice on this dead-end road.

Every step was calculated to the extreme.

Every time he passed a trap, he felt like he was a god in control of everything!

He even treated this as the starting point for surpassing Chu Xiao...

...and reaching the Peak!

He even rewarded his subordinates and won over their hearts.

Imagining his future appearance of ruling the world!

And the result?

The result was that someone had directly driven an invincible Flying Boat and crushed right over his face!

What he took was a self-righteous shortcut!

What they took was a broad highway paved with strength!

He was like someone working hard...

...a thief climbing a cliff by cheating.

While they were directly taking a private staircase to the top floor!

The gap!

What a desperate gap!

At this moment, the feeling of powerlessness from his past life of being crushed in every aspect by Chu Xiao...

...that sense of humiliation like an ant looking up at a god.

It surged into his heart once more!

And it was countless times more intense than in his past life!

"No..."

Lin Feng's lips began to tremble, and his teeth were clenched tightly together.

He almost bit them until they bled.

His eyes instantly turned blood-red, covered in bloodshot veins!

How could this be?

Why was it like this?!

In his past life, when the Abyss of Buried Immortals opened, there was no such Flying Boat at all!

The various major forces of the Central State had paid a tragic price to enter the interior of the abyss.

Countless Prodigies and old monsters had fallen within the killing Formations at this entrance!

Even Chu Xiao back then had relied on his unfathomable methods...

...to walk in step by step!

But in this life...

Why?!

Why would something appear that completely exceeded his understanding...

...and completely subverted his memories?!

Could it be...

A thought that made Lin Feng's soul tremble with fear...

...began to grow frantically in his mind.

Could it be that my Rebirth caused some unknown "butterfly effect"?

No!

Impossible!

If it was just the butterfly effect, it would be absolutely impossible to conjure such a terrifying Flying Boat out of thin air!

Who on earth is the owner of that Flying Boat?!

Which secluded old monster is it?

Or is it that in this life, a variable even more terrifying than Chu Xiao has appeared?!

Lin Feng's heart was sinking frantically.

Sinking into an endless abyss.

He felt like a self-important clown.

Who had meticulously rehearsed a grand play where he thought he was the protagonist.

Only for a true god to descend onto the stage just as the play began...

...and crush the entire stage to pieces with one foot!

"Master...?"

Behind him, Shi Potian snapped out of his shock.

He looked at Lin Feng's stiff back and his uncontrollably trembling body.

He spoke tentatively.

He found that the image of the omnipotent and calculating master in his heart...

...was developing a crack.

This call of "Master" was like the final straw that broke Lin Feng's extremely tense nerves!

"Pfft!"

He suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood!

His Dao Heart was damaged!

"No... impossible..."

Lin Feng's eyes were blood-red as he stared fixedly in the direction the Flying Boat had disappeared.

A low growl came from his mouth.

Why?

Why?

Why was the script he was so proud of...

...the future he had meticulously designed...

...being torn to shreds at this moment!

"This is impossible... the script... the script isn't like this!"

"Impossible!"

"Absolutely impossible!"

But in the next moment, he suddenly reacted.

He turned around to look at his three teammates.

He saw the bewilderment and doubt in their eyes!

No!

I can't fall here!

The hearts of my people must not scatter!

"No! This is just external power! It's the might of a Magic Treasure!"

Lin Feng forced himself to calm down.

He spoke to his teammates.

[part:gemini-3.1-flash-lite]

"That must be because they are relying on a one-time use forbidden Magic Treasure! Can't you all feel it? That level of suppression must consume an astronomical amount of energy!"

"I dare to conclude that that Magic Treasure won't last long! Once the energy is exhausted, they will be dead for sure!"

"And I still possess the true path to the heavens!"

"The only path that can lead to the very end, to obtain all the Opportunities!"

His words were like the last wooden plank grasped by a drowning person.

It allowed the wavering Man Niu and the other two to calm down a little.

That's right!

The consumption of a Magic Treasure of that Rank must be unimaginably huge.

It's impossible to use it continuously.

Once their energy is exhausted, they will be trapped to death in this Abyss of Buried Immortals.

That would be true despair.

And their master knows all the paths, all the Opportunities!

The final winners will definitely still be them!

Thinking of this, the suspicion in the three people's hearts was gradually suppressed.

Hope was rekindled.

Looking at his team members' eyes, Lin Feng breathed a sigh of relief.

But he knew clearly that he must catch up!

He could not let the owner of that Flying Boat leave his sight!

Otherwise, all his plans...

All his advantages would lose their meaning!

"Let's go! Speed up!"

Lin Feng no longer held back; he bit his tongue hard, and a mouthful of essence blood sprayed out!

Boom!

A bloody mist instantly enveloped the four of them!

Blood Burning Secret Technique!

"Follow me closely!"

Lin Feng roared lowly, his figure turning into a bloody afterimage.

Leading the team, he rushed frantically through the passageway.

He no longer carefully avoided all the traps as he did before.

Some insignificant little traps...

He simply used his Physical Body to tank through them!

He had to catch up to that Flying Boat!

He wanted to see with his own eyes who exactly was sitting on it!

...

Meanwhile, inside the dutian boat.

The atmosphere was as leisurely as if they were on vacation.

Princess Ji Ziyue lay on the control console, her small hands sliding back and forth on a blue light screen.

On the light screen, the scene behind the Flying Boat was displayed.

In the image, four little black dots were chasing frantically.

"Huh?"

Princess Ji Ziyue blinked her beautiful big eyes and turned around, calling out curiously.

"Big Brother Chu Xiao, look, those little mice from just now seem to be chasing us."

On the soft couch, Chu Xiao took a sip of the spiritual tea handed to him by Yuan Muyu and spoke again: "Just a few ants, don't worry about them."

Ants?

Hearing this, a strange look flashed in Yuan Muyu's eyes.

She had also noticed those people just now.

Although they were far away, she could feel them.

Among those few people, at least three of them had an aura no weaker than hers.

Even the one leading them gave her an extremely dangerous feeling.

Such a person, in his mouth, was just an ant?

Yuan Muyu glanced at the man lying on the soft couch.

Waves rose in her heart once again.

The strength of this man seemed to have no end.

...

Amidst the frantic chase.

The essence blood inside Lin Feng's body was burning rapidly, and his face was becoming paler and paler.

But the fire in his heart was burning brighter and brighter!

He couldn't catch up!

No matter how he activated his secret technique to push his speed to the limit.

The shadow of that Flying Boat was still becoming smaller and smaller in his field of vision.

More and more blurry.

The distance between the two sides was being ruthlessly widened!

Humiliation!

Unprecedented humiliation!

"Ahhh!"

Lin Feng roared frantically in his heart.

He hated!

He hated that Flying Boat!

He hated even more that mysterious owner on the Flying Boat whom he didn't know.

But who had made him taste the flavor of despair once again!

However, just amidst this extreme hatred and unwillingness.

A plan appeared in his heart.

Since he couldn't surpass others in hardware.

Then I would use my advantage!

The memories of my past life!

The madness on Lin Feng's face gradually faded.

He no longer blindly pursued speed.

Instead, he slowed his pace again, took his team, and turned into another fork in the road.

"Master, are we not chasing anymore?"

Shi Potian asked in confusion.

"Chasing?"

The corners of Lin Feng's mouth curled into a slight smile.

"Why should we chase?"

"Although they are fast, they are just walking in a straight line. They have no idea where the true Opportunities are."

"And we are going to the next Opportunity point to wait for them!"

A cold glint flashed in Lin Feng's eyes.

"Since I can't compete in hard power, I will use soft power!"

"I want him to know that in this Abyss of Buried Immortals, knowledge is the most powerful force!"

He wanted to wait for the rabbit at the next treasure location!

He wanted to let that high-and-mighty Flying Boat owner watch with his own eyes as he, relying on his "prophet" ability.

Easily took away the treasure he had his eyes on!

He wanted to use this method... to ruthlessly humiliate the other party!

Then...

Lin Feng's smile became increasingly sinister.

He wanted to catch up to that Flying Boat, and then... cooperate with him!

He would mold himself into a prophet who also possessed the secrets of the abyss.

He would use the countless pieces of information about Opportunities in his mind.

As bargaining chips to gain the other party's trust!

"Once I have gained your trust..."

"When the most critical moment arrives to fight for the Immortal Emperor Legacy and fuse with the Heart of the World..."

Lin Feng sneered frantically in his heart: "I will personally push you into the abyss of eternal damnation, and everything you possess will be mine!"

...

Relying on his familiarity with the terrain, Lin Feng's team finally caught up to Chu Xiao and his group, who were strolling around in a relatively open underground karst cave area.

The dutian boat was just hovering quietly in mid-air.

Neither moving forward nor retreating.

As if a monarch was inspecting his own territory.

And on the deck of the Flying Boat, several figures had just stepped down.

The white-clothed youth leading them had a lazy expression and yawned.

Beside him, a delicate and cute purple-clothed girl was chasing a butterfly-like light shadow and playing.

Her mouth emitting laughter like silver bells.

Another stunningly beautiful woman with a cold temperament stood quietly to the side.

Her gaze flowing, forming a scene of its own.

There was also a little girl sculpted from pink jade, crouching on the ground, sniffing hard with her little nose, drool almost flowing to the ground.

This scene was as leisurely as if they were on an outing.

Lin Feng stared fixedly at that white-clothed figure.

His heart felt as if it was being gripped by an invisible giant hand!

It was him!

Chu Xiao!

Even if he turned to ash, Lin Feng would never forget this face!

This face that wore a light and airy smile.

But had trampled all his dignity from his past life underfoot and crushed it to pieces!

Monstrous hatred surged in his chest.

Almost burning his reason to ashes.

Man Niu and the other two behind him were even more stunned by the scene before them, unable to speak.

Man Niu looked at the dutian boat, which was emitting supreme Divine Might, and his legs went weak.

Almost kneeling down on the spot.

Shi Potian had a fanatic look in his eyes and was trembling all over.

Muttering incoherent nonsense.

And Leng Yuexin, her gaze was fixed on Chu Xiao, and her expression was equally extremely ugly.

"Everyone, calm down!"

Lin Feng noticed that his team members had lost their composure.

He suddenly let out a low shout!

This shout contained the Divine Soul power he had forcibly suppressed.

Man Niu and the other two shuddered and instantly woke up from their various states.

Their faces simultaneously revealed expressions of horror and lingering fear.

They looked at Lin Feng, but saw that their master had already returned to calmness, not knowing when it happened.

On his originally ugly face, a smile now hung.

As if the person who had been twisted by jealousy and anger just now... was not him at all.

Seeing their master's calmness, the three people's wildly beating hearts also gradually calmed down.

The trace of doubt and wavering in their hearts.

Was once again forcibly suppressed.

That's right!

Their master is omnipotent!

He must have a way!

Lin Feng took a deep breath, pressing all the churning emotions into the deepest part of his heart.

He tidied up his somewhat disheveled robes and wiped away the blood from the corner of his mouth.

Forcing himself to squeeze out a smile that looked sincere.

Then he took a step.

In the uncertain and suspicious gazes of Man Niu and the other two, he walked towards Chu Xiao and the others on his own initiative.

"Big Brother Chu Xiao, look, those little mice following us have caught up."

Princess Ji Ziyue was the first to discover them.

She stopped playing.

Curiously pointing at Lin Feng who was walking over.

Chu Xiao didn't even look, just nodded and gave an "En" sound.

As if the ones walking over were not several living people.

But several insignificant minor characters.

This kind of disregard made the smile on Lin Feng's face instantly stiffen for a moment.

In his past life, he was a Prodigy; when had he ever suffered such humiliation!

But he forcibly endured it!

If one does not endure small things, one will mess up great plans!

He walked to ten zhang away from Chu Xiao and his group, stopped, and cupped his hands at Chu Xiao, who wasn't even looking at him.

"I am Lin Feng, greetings to Young Master Chu."

His voice was neither humble nor arrogant, and his posture was very correct.

Like a Prodigy of the same generation coming to make friends.

Chu Xiao still did not react.

Instead, the little girl artifact spirit, who was drooling, raised her head.

Looking at Lin Feng with a pair of watery big eyes, she asked in a milky voice: "You... have the smell of blood on you, not tasty."

The corners of Lin Feng's mouth twitched violently.

What kind of tiger-wolf words were these?

He forcibly endured the awkwardness and ignored this little thing.

His gaze remained on Chu Xiao.

"Young Master Chu, this Abyss of Buried Immortals is full of crises. We came here alone and every step is difficult. And Young Master holds the Divine Boat, with heaven-reaching strength, like the bright sun in the dark night, which makes us admire you endlessly."

Lin Feng first offered a not-too-light and not-too-heavy flattery.

Then he changed the subject.

"But I am fortunate enough to be the descendant of an ancient powerful being. Because of a trace of induction left in my Bloodline, I can seek good fortune and avoid misfortune in this place, and I know some unknown secrets."

"I would like to make a deal with you, Young Master, or rather... cooperate."

He stared burningly at Chu Xiao.

Lowering his posture even further.

"Young Master has the strength to suppress everything, and I have the ability to foresee opportunities. If you and I join forces, all the Opportunities beneath this Abyss of Buried Immortals will surely belong to us! At that time, we will be the biggest winners of this Abyss of Buried Immortals!"

After saying this, the scene remained quiet.