Yan Moxuan’s expression didn’t change in the slightest after ending the life of this woman who seed so important to Li Feng... as if he had rely crushed an insignificant insect beneath his foot.
Then, as if he still wasn’t done, he slowly withdrew his blood-soaked hand from Yue Lan’s chest.
Drip...
Drip...
Thick, crimson blood slid down his fingers, falling in slow, heavy drops onto the ground below.
Yue Lan’s body went completely limp.
Her head tilted slightly to the side, lifeless... like a broken discarded doll.
"...As per the deal."
He reached out and grabbed the strange floating orb of light.
Up close, it pulsed unnaturally like a living heart made of pure radiance.
Sothing inside it twisted faintly, as if struggling... or waiting.
Without hesitation, he shoved the orb of light straight into Yue Lan’s corpse.
The mont the light made contact, it began to lt into her body.
Then—
Drip...
Sothing dark fell from above.
The sa black, viscous substance that had seeped across the battlefield now poured down like a heavy, endless rain onto her corpse.
It didn’t splash when it hit her.
Instead, it clung like sothing alive.
It wrapped around her limbs... her torso... her face... layer by layer... slowly as if it was consuming her.
Or perhaps... claiming her.
After completely engulfing her body, the black substance slowly lifted Yue Lan’s corpse upward, carrying it high into the sky toward sowhere.
Li Feng’s pupils shrank sharply as he witnessed the scene.
Deep in his instincts, sothing scread at him... he could not let that black liquid take Yue Lan away.
Yan Moxuan seed to smile with satisfaction upon seeing Li Feng’s agitation.
He spread his arms wide and grinned toward him.
"Li Feng, I have done you a great favor... so now you can beco truly strong."
"You...!"
Li Feng’s face turned pitch black with rage.
An intense killing intent exploded from his body like a storm.
He tried to move—
But his body... refused to obey.
He glanced down and saw the black liquid writhing excitedly around him, clinging with even greater ferocity.
"Get... OFF!!"
BOOM!!
His aura erupted once more.
Silver light burst violently as the two hundred stars within his body roared to life, burning like a collapsing galaxy.
Yet the black liquid did not retreat.
Instead, it responded with desperate, almost frantic intensity, wrapping around him even tighter.
Yan Moxuan’s laughter rang out across the devastated battlefield.
"Hahaha! Li Feng. Forget about the woman! You should focus on ."
His crimson eyes brightened with hungry battle intent.
He had not forgotten the humiliation of dying like a dog at Li Feng’s hands.
Today, he intended to wash away that sha with blood.
BOOM!!
Li Feng completely ignored Yan Moxuan.
He smashed into the viscous black liquid again and again with raw power.
But instead of breaking, the substance clung tighter like glue.
No... more like a parasite.
The more he struggled, the more it coiled around his limbs, binding him as if it would rather die than let him pass.
"Dammit!!"
His heart pounded with growing urgency.
His eyes swept across the battlefield and saw Yan Moxuan drawing closer with a mocking grin, the scattered and severely injured disciples lying helplessly on the ground, and Yue Lan’s lifeless body being lifted higher and higher into the sky like a cruel trophy.
His teeth clenched so hard they nearly cracked.
Frustration.
Rage.
Helplessness.
All of it surged together until finally...
’Do I really have to use it...?’
His last trump card.
Right now, it seed there was no other choice.
Only by becoming the Rule of the Stars could he overturn everything.
A flicker of determination ignited in his eyes then turned ice-cold.
In the distance, Yan Moxuan suddenly stiffened.
"...!"
His instincts suddenly scread danger.
Without hesitation, he leapt backward, putting distance between them.
"What..."
Every fiber of his being warned him... sothing terrifying was about to descend.
Li Feng lowered his head slightly, his voice dropping to a chilling murmur.
"Age of the—"
[...Wait!.. Don’t use it!]
Li Feng froze as a soft, weak... unfamiliar woman’s voice echoed directly inside his mind.
His eyes widened as the skill halted just before activation.
For a brief second, everything stood still.
Before he could even question it, the voice ca again and this ti she sound more urgent and more strained.
[...He... is... watching you! Don’t use it yet!]
Li Feng’s heart skipped a beat at that words.
’Watching...?’
And a chill crept up his spine.
Not from the battlefield... not from Yan Moxuan.
But from sothing far more distant... far more terrifying.
His gaze instinctively lifted toward the sky.
But then, suddenly—
...Clink.
A faint, almost insignificant sound echoed above Li Feng’s head.
Yan Moxuan’s eyes flickered,
He frowned in confusion as he recognized the object.
"...A brick?"
In the next instant, the "brick" vanished.
No- it moved so fast it beca a blur.
WHOOSH!
Like a teor, it shot straight toward the strands of black liquid hoisting Yue Lan’s corpse into the sky.
SPLASH!
It smashed through them effortlessly.
Surprisingly, compared to the thick mass restraining Li Feng, the strands lifting the corpse were thin and fragile.
Before the overwhelming force of the Divine Brick, they shattered like glass.
SPLASH!
SPLASH!
SPLASH!
The thin black liquid burst apart, losing its grip.
And freed from its hold, Yue Lan’s body began to fall.
But in the next mont, the black liquid went berserk.
Like a starved parasite, it surged upward in a frenzy, desperate to reclaim what it had lost.
Just as it was about to engulf her again—
WHOOSH!
The Divine Brick darted in and snatched her away mid-air, carrying her corpse as it streaked across the battlefield.
For a brief mont, it paused high above the ground as it attempting to store her body within its internal space.
"~?"
...Then it let out a confused fluctuation as it realized it couldn’t store the corpse.
Then—
SSSHHHH!
SSSHHHH!
SSSHHHH!
The black liquid reacted violently.
It surged and twisted wildly, as countless sharp tendrils shooting upward from the ground like hungry spears, snapping at the air in pursuit.
But the Divine Brick moved like an extre phantom.
It dodged every strike with terrifying agility by weaving, twisting, and vanishing in a blur.
SSSHHHH!
The black liquid erupted again.
This ti, it didn’t just strike upward.
It split.
Dozens-no, hundreds of needle-thin tendrils burst from the ground in a widening do, sealing off every possible escape route in the sky.
They twisted mid-air, locking onto the Divine Brick’s trajectory with predator-like precision.
Then they snapped shut.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
Each impact detonated the air itself, black fluid exploding outward like thunder.
Yet the Divine Brick didn’t slow down for even a fraction of a second.
It slipped through the gaps between the explosions, threading through the destruction with impossible precision.
One mont it was there then gone, then already ten ters away, then above, then behind.
The Divine Brick darted, wove, and twisted like an untouchable mosquito, roaring through the chaos.
Every attack missed by a hair’s breadth.
No matter how ferocious the assault... it simply could not be caught.
Li Feng’s eyes lit up at the sight.
"Nice!"
A breath of relief escaped his lips as he realized he wasn’t alone in this fight.
But that relief lasted only a mont.
His gaze sharpened as he watched the Divine Brick weaving frantically through the air, barely evading the relentless pursuit of the black liquid.
At this rate... it wouldn’t last long.
His expression turned cold as he lowered his head and stared at the viscous mass still restraining him.
Now that he had a sliver of breathing room and with the dire situation pressing in from all sides... sothing clicked in his mind.
Silvery starlight began to gather around his arm, swirling and condensing as he prepared to unleash Falling Star Fist.
But this ti, he didn’t release it.
He compressed it.
And compressed it again.
Further.... and tighter.
SZZZZZ...
Densely packing the violent energy inward, forcing the explosive power into a single, contained point.
The surrounding space trembled faintly, unable to withstand the pressure building in silence.
He pushed it to the limit-no, beyond the limit!
Until—
[Ding!]
[An innate ability "Star Impact" has been learned!]
Without bothering to check its status, Li Feng grinned coldly and released it.
"Star Impact!!"
BOOMMMM!!!
The mont he released it, space itself seed to fold inward.
Not an outward explosion like before...
...but a collapse into a single point of annihilation.
A blinding sphere of compressed starlight detonated around his fist.
For an instant, there was no sound.
Only a silent distortion... as if reality itself had forgotten how to behave.
Then—
CRACKKKK!!!
The black liquid restraining him shattered.
Not pushed back nor dispersed... but completely erased, as though it had never existed under the wrath of the stars.
A perfect circular void ford around Li Feng as the ground beneath him disintegrated into fine dust, spiraling outward like the remnants of a dying galaxy.
And yet—
Instead of turning to help the Divine Brick...
Li Feng’s figure vanished.
FLASH!
A silver streak tore through space.
The next instant he appeared directly in front of Yan Moxuan.
His voice and eyes were ice-cold.
"...I need to make sure you’re dead first."
Yan Moxuan’s eyes widened in shock at the sudden shift.
Everything had happened in the blink of an eye.
He tried to dodge.
...But it was already too late.
Li Feng’s fist was right there, only a breath away from his face.
Teeth clenched, Li Feng poured everything into that single strike.
"Star Impact!!"
BOOOOMMMM!!!
A blinding silver bolt of lightning erupted on impact as the punch landed, swallowing Yan Moxuan’s figure in pure, condensed starlight.
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