Chapter 683: Sharpening the Knife

Zhou Shang, the so-called True Son of Earth, was an individual Chu Feng utterly detested.

Months ago, during the great battle in the Land of Ten Thousand Gods on Kunlun Mountain, Zhou Shang had ambushed Chu Feng, nearly dealing him a fatal blow. Now, he was intercepting Yellow Ox and Big Black. This was truly intolerable!

Furthermore, while Chu Feng was trapped in purgatory, the so-called True Son of Earth, Zhou Shang, and his protector, Yu Chi Kong, had blockaded the Immortal Mountain in the East Sea, hunting Chu Feng’s parents and Yellow Ox, aiming to seize their breathing techniques.

“Time and again, this is enough! If I don’t cut you down this time, you’ll surely continue to wreak havoc!”

Chu Feng asked Big Black and the others why they hadn't exposed Zhou Shang. How could such a person be worthy of being called the True Son of Earth? His character was too vile; they should directly inform the outside world, letting the Deva Race, Underworld Race, Spirit Race, and others hunt him down.

The Northeast Tiger and others stated that they had exposed him immediately, but no one believed them; it was treated as a joke, just like when they said Wu Lunhui was Chu Feng. Moreover, Zhou Shang had prepared thoroughly. He claimed to be from a planet named "Crimson" in the Lorraine galaxy, and cosmic feedback confirmed his past existence on Crimson.

Upon hearing this, Chu Feng fell into deep thought. Had Zhou Shang also created a new identity like him, or was this guy originally an alien?

Regardless of the situation, Chu Feng wanted to kill him!

After ending the call, Chu Feng immediately cozied up to Maiden Xi, showering her with so many enthusiastic compliments that even he, with his thick skin, felt embarrassed.

“Stop!”

Maiden Xi immediately called a halt. She couldn't stand it either. When faced with terms like “Xi Xi” and “Little Xi,” she felt goosebumps and discomfort all over.

“Speak like a human!” she rebuked.

Next, Chu Feng piled on more flowery phrases for Maiden Xi, like "not touching human fire," "a glance that bewitches a hundred beauties," "pure," "enchanting"... these words were contradictory!

Maiden Xi rubbed her temples and said, “I forgot, you are fundamentally a ghost. It’s normal for you to speak nonsense. Asking you to speak like a human is indeed difficult. Just tell me, what do you want?”

“Teach me a breathing technique, even a partial one, as long as it can rank in the top hundred in the universe. My demands aren't high!” Chu Feng said with a beaming smile.

Maiden Xi glanced at him and said, “Don’t you already have a very powerful breathing technique? It ranks eleventh in the netherworld.”

Chu Feng revealed the hidden reason, saying, “My name is now Wu Lunhui, so I can’t use my old breathing technique. A new identity naturally requires new martial arts manuals.”

Maiden Xi tilted her head and said, “That’s true. However, what I possess are among the peerless breathing techniques of the Yang Realm, too powerful to teach you. Another one is also extremely formidable, a secret passed down only within my maternal grandfather’s family, which cannot be divulged.”

Chu Feng nearly burst into tears. One truly couldn't compare people; others practiced more than one top-tier breathing technique, while he was so “impoverished.”

He shamelessly said, “I genuinely don’t mind it being too powerful. Just pass it on to me!”

“Don’t even think about it. If I were to pass it on to you, I would surely die myself.” Maiden Xi refused because there was a restriction in her mind that genuinely prevented her from divulging it.

She thought for a long time and said, “I can teach you the Immortal Phoenix clan’s breathing technique, a partial method excavated from ruins. The truly complete version is unattainable by anyone outside of that clan.”

She didn’t say the other part: once, a supreme dynasty that had flourished for 1.5 million years was annihilated overnight after obtaining the complete Immortal Phoenix breathing technique! No one expected that four Immortal Phoenixes, long absent from the Yang Realm, would emerge that night, each capable of rivaling the Supreme Ancestor of that mighty dynasty!

“You’re being so agreeable, is there some conspiracy?” Chu Feng eyed her suspiciously. Previously, when he asked her for breathing techniques, she would refuse to her death.

“A dog bites the fairy Xi, not recognizing a good fairy’s heart!” Maiden Xi rolled her eyes and said, “Isn’t it because I see you’re desperate and coming to beg me? If you don’t want it, forget it.”

“I want it!” Chu Feng naturally wouldn't miss out.

Then, he received a black, unremarkable eggshell with some patterns, markings, and imprints on it.

“What is this?”

“An Immortal Phoenix eggshell. It records the clan’s inheritance. Be careful not to break it,” Maiden Xi warned.

Chu Feng was speechless. Who was she trying to fool? The true Immortal Phoenixes were invincible divine birds. Their eggshells were among the hardest, if not the hardest. How could they possibly break?

“Because this eggshell is incredibly ancient, and it was struck by a supreme powerhouse, so it’s full of cracks and could disintegrate at any moment,” Maiden Xi explained. If the eggshell were complete, the inheritance would also be complete.

Chu Feng was half-convinced. Following Maiden Xi’s guidance, he began practicing this breathing technique. In an instant, smoke billowed from his seven orifices—his mouth, nose, ears, and eyes were all spewing fire. Finally, he even started bleeding from his nose!

“What kind of demonic breathing technique is this? I’m practically turning into a fire-breathing Western dragon!” Chu Feng cried out, feeling his hair almost catch fire.

Maiden Xi pouted, saying, “Tsk, those are just a bunch of fire lizards, not dragons. When they evolve to their peak, they’re all fat. Are dragons that chubby?”

“Let’s not discuss that topic. Tell me, is this breathing technique reliable? I feel like I’m about to burn up.” As Chu Feng spoke, his skin was scorching hot, and fire spurted from his mouth.

“It’s reliable. This is one of the peerless breathing techniques. If I hadn’t observed your comprehension quickly catching up to mine recently, wanting you to try and discover deeper, subsequent breathing techniques on this eggshell, I wouldn’t have given it to you,” Maiden Xi said.

Chu Feng was startled and asked, “Are you saying this eggshell might hide deeper breathing techniques of the Immortal Phoenix clan?”

Maiden Xi said, “There’s a possibility. First, practice the partial method I taught you. It’s guaranteed to rank within the top hundred in this universe!”

Chu Feng’s subsequent experience was quite painful. His clothes burned off one after another. Indeed, smoke billowed from his seven orifices, not from anger, but from the overpowering nature of this breathing technique. The Immortal Phoenixes were divine birds born from fire. Practicing their breathing technique meant immense yang energy and surging heat.

Fortunately, this was the netherworld; otherwise, the effects would have been even more terrifying.

He practiced this breathing technique while traveling, wasting no time. Eventually, he grasped the knack, and his clothes stopped burning. Especially when he finally entered a sun and employed this breathing technique, there was an explosive surge of fire! The downside was he nearly burned to death; it was too intense. The benefit was that he completely mastered it, thoroughly proficient through life-and-death struggle.

Now, Chu Feng stopped using the Stolen Dao Breathing Technique and instead used the Immortal Phoenix clan’s breathing technique. His strength was hardly diminished; it remained equally powerful. For his current realm, this so-called partial scripture was still sufficient. The only slight regret was that the partial scripture lacked not only the subsequent methods but also a few incantations for the initial stages of Awakening, Shackles, Freedom, and Visualization.

“Now that I have a breathing technique, why don’t you teach me a divine skill? What are we, after all? We've shared life and death...” Chu Feng shamelessly tried to cozy up again, his flattery an outpouring of eloquence.

“You’re truly greedy. I already taught you the Lightning Fist, which is a true divine skill. You still want more?” Maiden Xi glared at him.

“That’s a complete divine skill, and its Yang energy is too intense. If I use it, I’ll definitely be targeted by many people. Wu Lunhui might be schemed against. Such an envious divine skill should be left for Chu Feng to use anyway; he’s already got enough troubles, like a body full of fleas or debts.”

The complete technique’s Yang energy was too intense! At this point, Chu Feng somewhat doubted if the Stolen Dao Breathing Technique was truly complete, as its Yang energy wasn't as intense as he imagined when he activated it. However, he then remembered that what he currently possessed might not be complete, but he had obtained a golden box from under the Undying Medicine Tree on Kunlun Mountain, which might contain the complete version!

Maiden Xi said, “Go find Uncle Ming and learn from him.”

“Uncle Ming left on some business. He’s probably secretly contacting those criminals who escaped from the Dead Star Black Prison, planning something big. He won’t have time for me.”

Maiden Xi rolled her eyes with a look of disdain, but finally taught him a Yang Realm palm technique called Blazing Palm, which perfectly complemented the Immortal Phoenix breathing technique.

“Sis, one is too few; it lacks variation. Teach me another,” Chu Feng said with clear, innocent eyes, looking like a naive youth who hadn’t seen much of the world.

“Chu Loli, go to hell! Stop being cute! Who are you calling 'sis'? I’m only sixteen; you’re an old man in your twenties! It’s not like I don’t know your background!”

Though cursing, Maiden Xi still taught him a fist technique called the Great Sun Tathagata Fist. Unfortunately, it was a partial method; if complete, it would be one of the strongest divine skills in the Yang Realm, a forbidden profound art. When Chu Feng unleashed it, the sky and earth crumbled, and fire surged heavenward, as if a deity was displaying its might, terrifying beyond compare.

“Little sister, you are truly too kind! Come, give me a hug!” Chu Feng was incredibly happy and joyful after practicing the fist technique and enthusiastically expressed his gratitude.

Maiden Xi immediately dodged, glaring at him fiercely, saying, “Go to hell! You were calling me 'sis' just now, and after getting the palm and fist techniques, you call me 'little sister'! Taking advantage of me! Go to hell, go to hell!”

Chu Feng was very satisfied. With the Immortal Phoenix clan’s breathing technique, combined with the Blazing Palm and Great Sun Tathagata Fist, he was fully armed, enough to cause trouble.

The spaceship refueled inside a sun, then traversed the universe, performing a spatial leap. However, he couldn't return directly to Earth because of his identity as Wu Lunhui. Having disappeared from the Emma Star System last time, he couldn't jump too drastically. His path had to appear reasonable.

The youngest super-stellar genius, Wu Lunhui, reappeared on the star road, causing a sensation. Many tried to recruit him, but he eluded them every time, fully focused on his journey. Outsiders surprisingly learned that the peerless young prodigy Wu Lunhui was heading to Earth to witness the awakening of a revived planet's will, hoping to advance further there.

In the current universe, many geniuses from various races had already gone there, precisely to evolve alongside that planet and obtain great fortunes. It wasn't strange for a low-aged prodigy like Wu Lunhui to go there, as even the Feathered Divine Body, Primordial Dao Body, and Grand Evolution Battle Body were on their way. Furthermore, the Fated Immortal Body, Calamity-Free Divine Body, and Primordial Magnetic Saint Body had already appeared on Earth.

“Now it’s going to be lively!” people widely discussed.

Along the way, Chu Feng had Maiden Xi contact Yellow Ox and the others. He dared not contact them himself, fearing that hidden eyes might discover clues.

Then, a piece of news infuriated Chu Feng. On Earth, people from the three immortal islands—Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou—were siding with the Calamity-Free Divine Body, besieging Yellow Ox and Big Black, running rampant in the East Sea!

“They all deserve to die!” Chu Feng's eyes hardened with cold intent.

“Now, the Spirit Race, Machine Race, Deva Race, Xilin Race, and others have formed an alliance, claiming over a hundred evolutionist sects are united, coming to the East Sea to hunt. They're investigating the whereabouts of Immortal Mountain, wanting to annihilate us all!” This was Big Black Ox’s original message, filled with extreme anger and indignation.

“Over a hundred evolutionist sects united?” Chu Feng’s killing intent flared. This meant that upon returning to Earth, he would have to go on a rampage as Chu Feng.

Chu Feng said coldly, “Currently, those at the Golden Arhat level cannot enter Earth. The rest are nothing but weaklings. Even if there are so-called 'invincible physiques' among them, they still won’t be enough to fight. I’ll kill them all without mercy!”