50: Chapter 50 Ling Yue'er is courting death, so let her have her way!

Lin Feng was feeling very irritable right now.

This irritability stemmed from the loneliness of being at the top, a void born from the "Invincible Under Heaven" complex.

To put it more simply, he had farmed all the mobs on the server by himself. His experience bar was practically growing mold, yet he couldn't find a place to level up.

He glanced at his attribute panel, and the sense of boredom that came with being a powerhouse intensified.

[Host: Lin Feng]

[Realm: Half-step Danyuan]

[Cultivation Technique: Nine Yang Infinite Art (Beginner)]

[Martial Skill: Three Blades of Avici (Beginner)]

[Movement Technique: Snow-Treading Ghost Step (Beginner)]

[Critical Hit Multiplier: 135x]

[critical hit points: 102,350]

"Sigh..."

Lin Feng let out a long sigh; this was already the seventeenth time he had sighed this month.

Ever since he started treating the Li family's assassins like an all-you-can-eat buffet—slaughtering them as they came—

The entire underground world of Nanyan Prefecture City seemed to have transformed into a law-abiding society overnight. Not even a street thug could be found stealing a child's candied haws.

These past few days, the "human-head deliveries" he had painstakingly brought back were all insignificant petty thieves or minor demons that Huang Fugui had dug out from the nooks and crannies. The critical hit points they provided weren't even enough to fill the gaps between his teeth.

Despite this, through the accumulation of small amounts, his Critical Hit Multiplier had steadily climbed to 135x, and his critical hit points had finally broken through the hundred-thousand mark.

"Master, you should be satisfied."

Huang Fugui squatted on Lin Feng's shoulder, fanning him with his tail while advising him in a tone that suggested "the well-fed don't know the hunger of the starving."

"With your strength, you are the sky of Nanyan Prefecture right now. If you stomp your foot, the whole city trembles. I think you can just lie back now, take that girl from the City Lord's Mansion, and live a shameless life every day. Wouldn't that be great?"

Lin Feng ignored its nonsense.

"It's enough for me to Breakthrough to the Danyuan Realm."

"Then what are you waiting for?"

Huang Fugui's eyes lit up. "Master, if you Breakthrough, you can walk horizontally through Nanyan Prefecture!"

"You don't understand."

Lin Feng shook his head, a trace of solemnity flashing in his eyes.

"The path of martial arts, breaking through from the True Qi Realm to the Danyuan Realm, is a leap in life's level from the inside out. At that time, the Qi vortex within a Martial Artist's body will resonate with the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, condensing into a Golden Core within the Dantian."

"This process, though not as exaggerated as written in storybooks with Nine Heavens divine lightning descending, involves a real resonance with heaven and earth. Once the Breakthrough begins, all Spiritual Qi within a ten-mile radius will converge toward me, forming a massive Spiritual Qi vortex. At that time, every powerhouse above the Danyuan Realm in the entire Nanyan Prefecture will sense my presence immediately."

Huang Fugui listened in a daze, nodding as if he understood.

"Master, you mean... the commotion will be too big and scare the children?"

Lin Feng glanced at him and said coldly, "It will startle the snake."

He stood up, walked to the window, and looked toward the City Lord's Mansion and the Li family's estate with deep eyes.

"That big fish hiding in the shadows has yet to show its true tail. If I Breakthrough now, it would be like lighting a towering torch in the pitch-black night, telling everyone: 'I'm here, come look at me!'"

"Once that mastermind sees my strength skyrocketing, they will inevitably go into deeper hiding. At that point, it will be difficult to fish them out."

A cold, hunter-like smile curled at the corner of Lin Feng's mouth.

"Since using critical hit points to upgrade martial arts is instantaneous anyway."

"Rather than increasing the risk of exposure, it's better to save it for the most critical moment."

"To give the prey an unforgettable surprise when it is most smug and least expecting it."

Huang Fugui was completely convinced. His master's scheming was even deeper than the tunnels he had dug in Black Wind City.

Just then, Zhao Tie and Li Rui rushed in once again in a panic.

"Brother Lin! Brother Lin! That Little Chili... no, Miss Ling, she... she's up to her old tricks again!"

Lin Feng frowned. "Is she here to deliver flowers again?"

This month, he wasn't just annoyed by the lack of critical hit points, but also by this Miss Ling Yueer.

She had practically exhausted all her skills in pursuing him.

Sending flowers, sending money, sending precious horses...

Stopping at nothing.

"No, no, no!"

Zhao Tie shook his head like a rattle. "It's not flowers this time; it's a challenge letter!"

"A challenge letter?"

"Exactly!"

Li Rui chimed in, "After seven days of secluded cultivation, Miss Ling's cultivation has advanced greatly, and she successfully broke through to the third stage of the True Qi Realm! As soon as she came out today, she announced to the whole city that... your rejection of her was the greatest insult to her Martial Heart! She wants to fight for her dignity!"

"She has issued a formal Demon Suppression Division martial arts challenge to you! The time is in three days! The location is the central Martial Arts Field of the prefecture city!"

"And..."

Zhao Tie's expression became exceptionally strange. "She also put out the word that in this battle, if she loses, she will give up on you and never pester you again. But if she wins... you... you have to marry her!"

Lin Feng: "..."

...

This news was like a heavy bomb, instantly detonating throughout Nanyan Prefecture.

One second, everyone was still relishing the love story of the "Overbearing King of Hell and the Pretty Young Miss."

The next second, the tone shifted abruptly from a romance drama to a hot-blooded martial arts thriller!

"My god! Did I hear that right? The City Lord's daughter is challenging King of Hell Lin?"

"This plot is too exciting! It's the rhythm of love turning to hate, a lovers' quarrel to the death!"

"I'm opening the bets! I bet Lord Lin can make the City Lord's daughter go home crying to her mother in a single move! The odds are 1.1 to 1, can't go any higher!"

For a time, the entire prefecture city was boiling. Everyone was waiting with bated breath to see this "Battle of the Century," the most dramatic and high-profile event in the history of Nanyan Prefecture.

"Brother Lin, what do you think about this..." Zhao Tie asked cautiously.

Everyone thought Lin Feng would surely ignore such a nonsensical challenge, just as he had rejected Miss Ling Yueer before.

However, after listening, Lin Feng only asked one question calmly.

"Did she really say she'd never bother me again if she lost?"

"Absolutely! The whole city heard it!"

"Good."

Lin Feng nodded, a look of relief appearing on his face as if a huge burden had been lifted.

"I accept."