"Gu Qingfeng, you... you shameless bastard... how could you..." Chen Yue's hair was disheveled, her delicate face flushed with fury and humiliation. Her beautiful eyes were filled with hatred, especially when she looked at Gu Qingfeng standing leisurely upon the Cave Dwelling's Eye. The sight drove her mad with rage, and she screamed, "You perverted freak, go die!"
Whoosh!
Brilliant light swirled around Chen Yue's body. The ninefold iridescence of the Great Nature's Four Realms manifested, and her Golden Core spun eighty-one times as she unleashed her full power, determined to teach this bastard a harsh lesson!
The moment Chen Yue moved, Lan Feier also gritted her teeth and cursed, "Bastard!" before charging forward. Shui Yunruo followed without hesitation, attacking immediately.
Like Chen Yue, both Lan Feier and Shui Yunruo were psychologically unbalanced. Having been rejected, teased, and mocked, a complex tangle of emotions demanded an outlet. They needed someone to vent their fury upon.
Xiao Danrou and Qing Zhu were no exception. They too felt unbalanced and wanted to vent. However, unlike the other three, these two not only wanted to teach him a lesson but also wanted to silence Gu Qingfeng to prevent this incident from ever being exposed.
Absolutely!
Otherwise, they would truly have no face left to show anyone in the future!
As for how to silence him...
Xiao Danrou didn't know. Qing Zhu didn't know either. They figured they'd beat him up first and worry about silencing him later!
These five women were either Nascent Soul experts or possessed eighty-one-rotation Golden Cores. When they got serious, they were especially ferocious.
However, Gu Qingfeng seemed utterly unmoved. He leisurely put away his wine gourd, tucked the flower in his hand into his robe, and casually fended off the five women's attacks as he remarked, "I say, ladies, I just risked my life to save you. I'm not asking you to pledge yourselves to me in return, but there's no need to repay kindness with hostility, is there?"
"Perverted freak, you're shameless!"
"You shameless bastard, you teased me! I'll kill you!"
"I've never seen someone as thick-skinned and shameless as you!"
Shui Yunruo, Lan Feier, and Chen Yue attacked frantically. Xiao Danrou and Qing Zhu did the same. But the more they fought, the more astonished they became. As the battle wore on, the five women's initial fury and humiliation gradually transformed into shock and horror, for they discovered something utterly terrifying.
No matter how wildly they circulated their Spiritual Energy, no matter what profound immortal arts they unleashed... they actually... couldn't budge this guy an inch.
Yes!
Not an inch!
He just stood there quietly upon the Cave Dwelling's Eye, expression leisurely, a faint smile playing on his lips. He waved his arms and moved his fists and feet with effortless ease. Each move was broad and sweeping, executed with great openness. There was no Spiritual Energy, no radiant light—just pure physical strength.
"Who are you?!" Xiao Danrou unleashed a palm strike. Powerful Nascent Soul Spiritual Energy surged forth like raging tidal waves, interwoven with various immortal arts.
"Guess," Gu Qingfeng replied, casually waving his hand. With a *bang*, the Spiritual Energy and immortal arts contained within Xiao Danrou's palm strike were instantly dispersed into nothingness.
Qing Zhu attacked next, with the same result.
Both were Nascent Soul experts, experienced and knowledgeable, yet they had never encountered anyone so bizarre.
"Gu! I refuse to believe I can't deal with you!"
Whoosh!
Flames erupted around Chen Yue's body. A pair of fiery wings materialized on her back, and her entire form transformed into a firebird. As she dove down, she unleashed an immensely powerful force.
"Young lady, you're still too young." Gu Qingfeng raised his hand and blocked the firebird-transformed Chen Yue. At the same time, Shui Yunruo and Lan Feier attacked together. Shui Yunruo shifted through a thousand changes, elusive as wind and mist, then shot forth like a dazzling meteor streaking across the sky. Lan Feier was clad in ten thousand zhang of golden light, her momentum like a rainbow, vast and majestic as the deep sea.
Shui Yunruo had unleashed her Xiantian Inheritance, while Lan Feier had unleashed her Xiantian Treasure Body.
Yet.
It was useless.
Chen Yue's Xiantian Bloodline was effortlessly blocked by Gu Qingfeng. Lan Feier's Xiantian Treasure Body and Shui Yunruo's Xiantian Inheritance were similarly blocked with casual ease.
"How... how is this possible..." Shui Yunruo knew Gu Qingfeng was mysterious and bizarre, but she never imagined his mystery and bizarreness could be so terrifyingly profound. Even after unleashing her Xiantian Inheritance, she couldn't budge him an inch.
"Why wouldn't it be possible?" Gu Qingfeng swept his arm. With a *bang*, Chen Yue, Shui Yunruo, and Lan Feier were sent flying sideways. Xiao Danrou and Qing Zhu no longer dared to attack blindly. At this, the five women froze in place, their expressions terrified, eyes wide with horror, filled with utter disbelief.
Gu Qingfeng leisurely bent down, collected the Lunar Essence Spirit-Seed floating within the Cave Dwelling's Eye, and tucked it away. Then he jumped down, raised his hand with palm facing downward, and performed a massive suction. All the Lunar Essence Spiritual Energy within the Cave Dwelling's Eye was thus completely drained by him.
Witnessing this scene, the five women felt their scalps go numb. They were so frightened it was as if they had seen a ghost or a god, their pretty faces turning deathly pale as they instinctively retreated a few steps.
That was Lunar Essence Spiritual Energy!
Spiritual Energy condensed from the essence of the night moon, a pure Yin energy! Ordinary people couldn't absorb it at all because their Dantian simply couldn't withstand it. Even prodigies like them who possessed Xiantian traits, or experts who had cultivated Nascent Souls, needed a long time to refine just a wisp after absorbing it. And that was just a wisp! Yet this guy before them had just performed one massive suction and drained all the Lunar Essence Spiritual Energy from the Cave Dwelling's Eye!
Heavens!
Was he even Human?!
This was too horrifying, too terrifying!
What made it even more unbelievable was that after absorbing it all, this guy seemed completely unaffected, as if he hadn't absorbed pure Yin Lunar Essence Spiritual Energy but ordinary Spiritual Energy instead. No! Even if it were ordinary Spiritual Energy, absorbing so much at once would be more than any Dantian could bear!
"Well?" Gu Qingfeng took out a Monster Fruit and began leisurely peeling it. Lifting his gaze, his bored eyes swept over the five women one by one as he asked indifferently, "Still not convinced?"
Not convinced?
Indeed.
None of the five women were convinced. Not only were they unconvinced, their hearts felt even more unbalanced.
But whether unconvinced or unbalanced... what could they do?
They had exhausted every means at their disposal and still couldn't affect this guy in the slightest. What else could they do?
Noticing Gu Qingfeng seemed about to leave, Xiao Danrou immediately shouted to stop him, "Halt! You can't leave!"
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
Qing Zhu, Shui Yunruo, Chen Yue, and Lan Feier all immediately surrounded him.
Gu Qingfeng raised an eyebrow, turned to look at them, and when his dark, profound eyes met theirs, the five women instantly felt as if they had been completely seen through. It seemed as if they had no secrets left, as if even their souls were laid bare before him.
At this moment, the five women's hearts were filled with both hatred and fear.
What to do?
They couldn't defeat him in a fight. Should they just let it go?
No!
They absolutely could not let it go!
Qing Zhu bit her lip, steeled her heart, and declared, "No one leaves until this matter is clarified!"