Looking at the damaged ceiling and walls of Feng Yueji's home, Jiang Feng sighed helplessly.
He hadn't managed to control his strength and nearly demolished the house.
However, it wasn't entirely his fault; Vice Sect Leader Lu was just too weak. At the Early Stage Maestro level, he was pathetically inept!
Yet Feng Yueji wasn't even worried about her house at this moment. For her, homes like this could be as many as she wanted, the key was she had just personally witnessed Jiang Feng's formidable power!
How to describe this feeling? Simply put, she felt utterly captivated and entranced!
She couldn't imagine how there could be such a powerful person in the world?!
It was one thing if Jiang Feng had just effortlessly dealt with Ling Yifeng, Luo Ying, and Zhao Chun, but this was Vice Sect Leader Lu!
A figure second only to the Sect Leader in the entire Tianyin Sect, a terrifying figure she had revered for many years!
However, he... wasn't even a match for Jiang Feng in a single round!!!
At this moment, Feng Yueji's entire being trembled, so much so that her gaze at Jiang Feng was akin to looking at a legendary god!
"Cough... cough... how is this possible?" Lu Hou, slumped on the ground, was filled with disbelief!
Now, he only wished to return to the mountain and tell his Sect Leader Senior Brother that Jiang Feng in Binhai was a terrifying anomaly, and the Sect Leader should lead everyone to flee the mountain quickly...
But he would never have the chance!
The shattered organs inside him soon took away Lu Hou's last breath, and with overwhelming fear, he died bleeding from all seven orifices.
"Clean up the scene here, deal with the bodies of these three, and don't let them bring you trouble," Jiang Feng said to Feng Yueji as he surveyed the chaotic room.
"Mm! I will handle it, don't worry Master Jiang, they are all outsiders, and no one will pursue their deaths here." Feng Yueji nodded compliantly.
As a martial artist herself, Feng Yueji had far more courage than the average woman, and the current scene was within her capacity to handle. Only Jiang Feng's immense power still made her unable to calm down for a long time!
"What kind of person is your Master, the Tianyin Sect Leader?" Jiang Feng suddenly asked Feng Yueji.
Feng Yueji was taken aback, then smiled bitterly: "When I was still on the mountain, his demands of me were extremely harsh. If I wasn't diligent in my martial arts practice and didn't meet his requirements, he would even beat me..."
"He is rather despotic and narrow-minded. Things have to go his way, and if they don't, the consequences are dire!" Feng Yueji recalled the painful experiences of the past while speaking.
"So, he's a vengeful person?" Jiang Feng asked pointedly.
"Yes!" Feng Yueji nodded, curious: "Master Jiang, why do you ask this all of a sudden?"
"These three are prominent figures in Tianyin Sect, right?" Jiang Feng asked, looking at the three bodies inside and outside the villa: "Now that they have all died in Binhai, your Sect Leader would hardly let this go unchallenged."
Upon hearing this, Feng Yueji's previously excited mood abruptly calmed down: "Yes, even Vice Sect Leader Lu is dead, so I'm guessing his next step would be to come out personally!"
"Since that's the case, you'll have to work harder from now on," Jiang Feng said plainly. "I'll enhance your training, hoping to help you grasp more of the 'Phoenix Glaze Skill' sooner, so that when your Master descends from the mountain, you can defeat him yourself and settle this grudge."
Feng Yueji was stunned by his words!
Jiang Feng was actually making her fight against the Tianyin Sect Leader?!
Such a thing, she had never dared to imagine before!
Because her fear and submission towards the Tianyin Sect Leader since childhood made him seem like a towering, unmovable mountain in her heart!
And now, Jiang Feng was letting her challenge the deepest source of her inner pressure?
"Don't worry, once you comprehend ten percent of the 'Phoenix Glaze Skill,' no matter what realm your Master reaches at the Maestro level, you can easily defeat him." Jiang Feng said calmly.
He did this deliberately!
Aside from giving Feng Yueji a goal and a hypothetical enemy to keep her vigilant, he also aimed to help Feng Yueji confront her Heart Demon and break through herself!
After all, once Feng Yueji defeated the Tianyin Sect Leader, her martial arts spirit would receive unprecedented encouragement, solid and unwavering! And her martial arts cultivation would reach a new level as well!
"Master Jiang, Yue Ji understands!" Feng Yueji nodded solemnly.
"For now, that's it. See me tomorrow as usual, I'm leaving." Jiang Feng waved his hand and walked away from the residence, disappearing into the night.
Feng Yueji escorted Jiang Feng to the door, intensely gazed at Jiang Feng's departing figure, and felt a strange emotion rising in her heart, which made her slightly entranced.
...
That night, after Feng Yueji cleaned up the mess at home and buried the bodies of Lu Hou and the others, it was already late into the night.
She took a bath and went to bed but slept restlessly, even having a shameless dream for the first time.
In her dream, she repeatedly recalled Jiang Feng's imposing and unrivaled figure, and her delicate body curled up into a ball.
As her long eyelashes quivered, the real her involuntarily clutched the quilt tight, her slender legs lightly rubbed together, with her cheeks flushed red.
Her eyes blurred, teeth clenched, and lips moved, her entire body felt feverish...
Suddenly, her body stiffened! Then she opened her eyes wide.
Looking at the vast emptiness of the bed, the blush on Feng Yueji's face gradually faded, replaced by an unmistakable loneliness and melancholy.
Turning over, she lay on the bed, staring blankly at the empty ceiling.
Throughout the night, she was destined to feel waves of emptiness, unable to sleep.
...
Meanwhile, in the Tianyin Sect Leader's main hall at the Yinpan Mountain in Jiangnan Province, 800 miles away from Binhai.
Throughout the night, the Tianyin Sect Leader was restless, pacing back and forth in the hall, occasionally furrowing his brows and at times looking gloomy.
"Sect Leader Senior Brother, according to time, Vice Sect Leader Lu and Senior Brother Zhao should have sent word back by now, why is there no news so far?"
There were only two elders left in the Tianyin Sect, one with the surname Geng and the other Chai. At this moment, Elder Geng asked.
"How would I know? My eyelids have been twitching all night; is there another problem?" the Tianyin Sect Leader replied coldly.
Logically, Lu Hou and Zhao Chun should have already returned with Jiang Feng's head by now!
After all, when they last made contact, they had promised the Tianyin Sect Leader: To definitely bring Jiang Feng's head back up the mountain before dawn!
But now, those two had lost contact, and even Lu Hou's proud disciple Gou Yunfei couldn't be reached.
"Does a small Binhai City run so deep? What kind of sinister trick does that little bastard named Jiang Feng have? I've sent people over and over again and none have returned?"
The Tianyin Sect Leader seethed with intense resentment:
"If even Lu Hou has fallen this time, I will personally descend the mountain and twist off that little bastard's head!"
"And, I will break all of Feng Yueji's bones and make her kneel in repentance at my feet!!!"