143: Chapter 143 Another Sigma! Wait on the road, Zhang Cheng will be there soon!

Inside the valley, with the Nine-Nether Dragon Lion turning to ashes, everything returned to a deathly silence.

The air was filled with a thick scent of blood, mixed with the ancient, lingering Dragon prestige and resentment, forming a nauseating and eerie atmosphere.

Lin Feng sat cross-legged quietly on the bluestone dyed red by Dragon blood, his eyes slightly closed. The Qi around his body was harmonious and restrained, no longer showing a shred of his previous sharp edge.

He was like a silent reef; regardless of the wind and rain, he remained unmoved, perfectly merging with the surrounding world.

He was consolidating the Realm he had just achieved a Breakthrough in.

The Martial Extremity Realm: every level is like ascending to heaven.

From the third level to the sixth, it might seem like just a rise of three minor Realms, but the growth in strength was worlds apart, an exponential explosion.

Now, relying solely on the Physical Body strength brought by the "Indestructible Asura Body," he was enough to go head-to-head with ordinary Peak Martial Extremity Realm powerhouses.

If he fully opened his Domain, combined with the "Dragon-Slaying Sword Canon," plus a ten-thousand-fold critical hit.

Even an Earthly Immortal who had glimpsed the half-immortal state would be killed in one hit.

Not far away, Chu Mengxi stared blankly at the man sitting cross-legged like a god. Her heart, already numbed by repeated shocks, once again surged with monstrous waves.

Too fast!

Everything happened too fast!

From strolling through the lethal formation, to casually punching to death that terrifying guardian beast capable of destroying a state, to consuming the dragon-suppressing stone and breaking through two minor Realms on the spot...

The entire process was fluid and accomplished in one go, so fast that she did not even have time to think before the battle ended.

She felt that the person she was following was not a human at all, but a bulldozer in human skin, a monster that existed solely to shatter the enemy's common sense and refresh the worldview of onlookers.

But at the same time, an unprecedented sense of security welled up.

Looking at that quietly sitting back, her heartstrings, which had been taut ever since she received the mission, unexpectedly relaxed like never before.

She knew that as long as this man was here, the sky would not collapse.

However, just at the moment when her mind relaxed slightly, and she even began to let her imagination run wild, thinking perhaps it would not be bad to just keep following him, a thought, like a viper hidden in the deepest depths, quietly crawled out from the bottom of her heart, flicking its cold tongue.

"Must... must inform the Chief Steward immediately about everything that happened here, about his true strength!"

Once this thought emerged, it was like a wildfire, instantly spreading through her entire mind, impossible to contain any longer.

She knew very well that Lin Feng's growth speed had long exceeded Sword Demon Zhang Cheng's expectations, and could even be said to have completely spun out of control.

This "blade" that the master had placed high hopes on was already sharp enough to cut any wielder!

If he were allowed to continue growing so recklessly, I fear it would not be long before he becomes an existence even more terrifying and unpredictable than Emperor Xia!

By then, all the plans that Sword Demon Zhang Cheng had painstakingly managed for forty years would vanish like bubbles!

"I'm sorry... Lin Feng..."

A flash of extremely complex struggle and pain crossed Chu Mengxi's eyes.

On one hand, there was the invincible figure like a god or demon that this man brought her, along with that twisted sense of security.

On the other hand, there was the person who saved her from a sea of blood, raised her, taught her martial arts, gave her a new life, and whom she had long regarded as her faith.

This loyalty, rooted deep in her Soul, ultimately conquered everything.

Her eyes became firm and cold once again.

She quietly took out from her bosom a seemingly ordinary communication jade talisman, polished from an unknown jade, which Sword Demon Zhang Cheng had left for her.

It was the final and most secret means of contact, capable of ignoring any spatial shielding or Law interference.

With her back to Lin Feng, she carefully injected a trace of True Qi into it, preparing to transmit the intelligence of this place.

However, just as her True Qi was about to touch the core formation of the jade talisman.

A voice, so flat and devoid of any emotion, sounded without warning from behind her, causing her to freeze in place as if struck by lightning.

"What are you doing?"

Chu Mengxi's delicate body trembled violently.

She struggled to turn her head, inch by inch, only to see that Lin Feng had finished his Cultivation at some point and was standing quietly not far behind her, his deep eyes fixed on her.

That gaze held no anger, no disappointment, only a cold, deathly stillness capable of freezing the Soul.

"I... I didn't..."

She instinctively wanted to defend herself, wanted to hide the jade talisman.

But it was too late.

"Puchi!"

A crisp, hair-raising sound of a sharp blade tearing through flesh suddenly rang out!

Chu Mengxi's delicate body suddenly stiffened.

She struggled to lower her head, looking at her flat lower abdomen, where a cold, black blade tip stained with her warm blood had pierced through from her lower back.

A poignant, crimson blood flower slowly bloomed upon her black combat attire.

"Why... why..."

She struggled to turn her head, looking in disbelief at the man who had appeared behind her at some point, his face devoid of any expression.

Her cold Phoenix eyes were filled with confusion, bewilderment, and a trace of... heartbreak.

She never dreamed that she would ultimately die at the hands of this man.

"Because your value ends here."

Lin Feng's voice remained flat, devoid of the slightest emotion, as if stating a cold fact already written in a script.

He slowly withdrew the "Life-Slaying Blade" that had pierced her body, letting her delicate frame collapse to the ground, blood staining the earth beneath her.

He looked down at her from above, watching the life force rapidly fading from her eyes, and continued in that emotionless tone:

"Did you think I really needed you as a guide to find this place?"

"Did you think I really didn't know you were carrying Sword Demon Zhang Cheng's backup plan?"

"From the moment you appeared in that cave, I knew you were just a pawn he sent to monitor me, and incidentally, to deliver a Golden Finger to me."

"I kept you only because you had value that I needed. For example, using your identity to attract pursuers, and using you to open this Secret Realm."

"Now, the dragon-suppressing stone is in hand, and the coordinates of the Secret Realm have been exposed. You, as a pawn, are no longer useful."

"And a useless pawn, if kept, will only get in the way."

These words, like the sharpest blade in the world, sliced away, one by one, the remaining fantasies and ridiculous luck in Chu Mengxi's heart, completely executing them by slow slicing.

So, from beginning to end, in his eyes, she was just a tool that could be used at any time and discarded at any time.

Her life force, like a receding tide, rapidly flowed out of her body.

At the very last moment before her consciousness plunged into darkness, she felt as if she had returned to that night shrouded in blood, where that man, just like this, with one blade, slashed the Painted Skin Demon that had made her feel despair into ashes.

So, from start to finish, he had never changed.

He was the King of Hell.

"Wait on the road, Sword Demon Zhang Cheng will be there soon!"