Chapter 123: Chapter 90: Longxi - Sword Pulling, One Sword to Decide Life and Death

SWISH!

Zhong Ming didn’t walk right up to Li Feng. When they were thirty meters apart, both men stopped simultaneously.

They exchanged a glance. As if admiring Zhong Ming’s courage, Li Feng’s attitude and tone toward him were surprisingly decent.

However, he still stated brazenly:

"You didn’t choose to turn invisible and run, but walked toward me instead? Zhong Ming, is it? You have a lot of courage. A shame you’ve made the worst possible choice."

"If you had chosen to flee, you might have had a chance to preserve a spark for the Seven Profound Sect."

"A tiny little spark, that is."

As Li Feng gestured with his thumb and forefinger, Zhong Ming’s expression was utterly placid—so calm it bordered on indifference.

"Run? If I ran, how would I kill you?"

’Huh?!’

Zhong Ming’s reply stunned the previously casual Li Feng.

He turned his head in disbelief, sizing Zhong Ming up and down for several moments before pointing to himself and asking, utterly dumbfounded, "You want to kill me?"

After he spoke, as if not trusting his own ears, he repeated the question:

"After witnessing my power, you still think you can kill me in a one-on-one duel?"

Zhong Ming: "Yes."

"..."

Zhong Ming’s response cast a hush over the scene. Outside, the onlookers exchanged confused glances.

After a long moment, a voice finally broke the silence.

"Just what you’d expect from someone from Longxi Peak. Even if a Sword Cultivator is outmatched and likely to die in battle, a true Sword Cultivator never backs down."

The people outside didn’t believe Zhong Ming could win. Hearing his bold words, they could only praise his courage.

Meanwhile, inside the Heaven-Filling Array Map, Li Feng was exasperated.

"Sigh. I originally thought you were brave, but now I see I was mistaken. You’re not brave—you’re just stupid!"

"Even now, you still haven’t recognized the gap between us... Forget it. There’s no getting through to an idiot like you. In that case, let me use death to wake you up once and for all!"

SWISH!

He was still far from Zhong Ming when he shook his head and sighed, but as the word "death" echoed, his terrifying, ferocious figure was suddenly within arm’s reach.

With ghostly speed, he closed the distance to Zhong Ming in an instant.

The long saber in his hand cut through the air as he moved, letting out a sharp shriek, like a wild beast roaring in fury.

The next moment, the blade, infused with all of Li Feng’s speed and power, descended straight for Zhong Ming’s neck, brimming with endless killing intent.

KREEE!

In his fiendish form, he was terrifyingly fast, moving as if by teleportation.

Faced with Li Feng’s lightning-fast surprise attack, Zhong Ming seemed not to have reacted at all, his movements appearing exceptionally sluggish.

As the shrieking long saber slashed toward him, he just stood there blankly, neither dodging nor blocking.

At the last moment, he merely managed to raise his arm, preparing to flick a finger.

’His reaction is so slow. Looks like I really misjudged him this time... Huh?!’

Li Feng, who had assumed Zhong Ming was extremely weak, had been shaking his head, but his expression quickly changed.

Zhong Ming hadn’t dodged, but what Li Feng hadn’t expected was that his slash failed to shred the Magical Robe Zhong Ming wore—one that was woven from flowing water and looked incredibly frail.

HUMMM...

As the long saber struck the flowing water, Li Feng felt as if he had slashed into an endless abyss. An extreme sense of stagnation and weight enveloped his blade.

[Heavy Abyss Water Pearl]

Then, in the next instant, Li Feng felt the force of his long saber being diverted by the current, flowing elsewhere.

This diversion also caused Zhong Ming’s Magical Robe to billow and sway as if buffeted by a storm.

At the same time, the rapidly swirling vortex acted like an invisible hand, tugging at the long saber in his grasp, trying to pull it off course—or even wrest it from him entirely.

[Dao Rhyme: Vortex Dragon]

’What is this?!’

The sudden turn of events startled Li Feng, but he soon had no time to dwell on it.

As his long saber struck Zhong Ming’s Longxi Magical Robe, Zhong Ming’s bent finger shot forward.

BANG!

With the flick of Zhong Ming’s finger, a dark-colored droplet shot toward Li Feng like a bullet.

Li Feng sensed an extreme threat from the water droplet.

VRRRIP!

Seeing this, Li Feng’s first instinct was naturally to dodge.

However, his weapon was still held fast by Zhong Ming’s Longxi Magical Robe.

After integrating the Earth-level Middle-grade Treasure, the Heavy Abyss Water Pearl, Zhong Ming’s Magical Robe had undergone a qualitative transformation. Now, not even an attack from a late-stage Qi Cultivation expert could pierce his defenses.

Moreover, the water that wove Zhong Ming’s Magical Robe was not static.

It was spinning rapidly, like a vortex.

This rotational force could divert any attack to the side. At the same time, the swiftly flowing water possessed a power that carried everything along with it.

Just as a great river can carry billions of tons of sand and silt into the Great Sea, Zhong Ming’s Magical Robe, infused with the Dao Rhyme of the vortex, made it difficult for anything that pierced it to be easily withdrawn.

And the Heavy Abyss Water only amplified this characteristic.

Due to all these factors, even when Li Feng pulled with all his might, he failed to withdraw his long saber on the first try.

By now, the water droplet Zhong Ming had launched was right before his eyes, leaving Li Feng with two choices.

Abandon his saber and retreat, or take the hit head-on.

Li Feng... chose the latter.

The emotion that drove him to this decision was—arrogance!