Chapter 155: The Thunder-Merge King Beast Fights the Male and Female Snow Tyrants in Single Combat
As soon as Chu Feng uttered these words, he remembered that the people standing around were all young women, and his remark was somewhat unrefined. However, the female warriors, led by Yan Mei, were all captivated by Dong Zhe's bizarre expression.
Dong Zhe's mouth was wide open, and his eyes were bulging, his entire face stretched out by nearly a quarter!
There is a saying about being so shocked that one's jaw drops, and Dong Zhe was the exact embodiment of that state right now. With his mouth agape, he looked as though he had tried to swallow a massive egg that was too large to go down and too stubborn to spit out.
"Huh? What's wrong with Dong Zhe? Is he really choking on something?" Bai Naizhao muttered with a smile.
"Young Master Chu is truly formidable! That bizarre expression of Dong Zhe's must be the result of one of Young Master Chu's formidable profound arts!"
"Indeed! It's laughable how those deacons spoke so boastfully, claiming Young Master Chu was bound to lose. What a pity for them—now some are dead and others paralyzed, missing the spectacle of Young Master Chu displaying his divine might!"
"Precisely! Young Master Chu will triumph!"
Seeing Chu Feng turn the passive situation into an active one and realizing that Dong Zhe's condition was clearly perilous, the female warriors cheered with excitement.
Among all the men and women present, apart from Chu Feng himself, no one else knew why Dong Zhe had assumed such an appearance.
Just moments before, when Chu Feng executed the Swift Sound Step and unleashed a fierce sonic attack against those deacons, Dong Zhe, who was protected by the Force-Unifying Art, also felt wave after wave of sound penetrate the art's defensive barrier, assaulting his physical body.
Right as Dong Zhe circulated his inner Qi to reinforce the defensive efficacy of the Force-Unifying Art, a sonic wave struck precisely at his dantian.
Consequently, Dong Zhe's inner Qi could neither ascend nor descend, becoming temporarily stagnant right there. It was just like choking on food, which naturally produced that comical expression.
Simply put, Dong Zhe's inner Qi had backfired.
"Now is the prime moment to counterattack!"
A thought flashed through Chu Feng's mind. With a heavy shake of his Thunder-Breaking Wind-Shattering Spear, he simultaneously deployed the Swift Wind Step, sending four howling pillars of wind surging forward to clear a path for him.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
As these four wind pillars once again assaulted Dong Zhe, the defensive perimeter of his Force-Unifying Art had shrunk to roughly a foot. The wind pillars looked poised to breach his defense and assail his physical body!
Simultaneously, Chu Feng shifted his footwork once more. With a swift pivot, Dong Zhe felt a jolt of panic as countless pinhole-sized white dots of light rushed toward his face.
Assailed by Chu Feng's Swift Light Step, Dong Zhe had no time to defend himself, feeling the blinding glare of white light that instantly plunged him into temporary blindness!
"Break for me!"
Chu Feng let out a mighty roar. From a distance of over ten feet away, he thrust his spear fiercely toward Dong Zhe!
Wailing... Roaring...
This immensely powerful spear thrust contained the strength of thirty Vajra war rhinos, reaching a force of seven hundred and fifty thousand catties! As the spear shot forward, the wailing sound of wind and the roaring sound of thunder clung to the spearhead, clearly echoing in everyone's ears.
Bang!
The next instant, when Chu Feng's spearhead reached within a foot of Dong Zhe's body, a sudden, thunderous explosion rang out.
It was the sound of air detonating!
The defensive barrier of the Force-Unifying Art surrounding Dong Zhe was shattered by Chu Feng's spear, much like an airbag bursting when subjected to a certain threshold of pressure. When the Force-Unifying Art was broken, it inevitably produced a tremendous sound.
Simultaneously with the sonic boom, Dong Zhe's body flew backward like a kite with a snapped string, soaring straight back for over a hundred feet.
Chu Feng had no intention of waiting for him to land before resuming the fight. Leaping into the air, he instantly thrust the Thunder-Breaking Wind-Shattering Spear forward, intending to dispatch Dong Zhe using the exact same brutal method he had used on Dong Zhuo.
Unexpectedly, Dong Zhe possessed the cultivation level of the eighth stage of the Body Tempering Realm. Even in a state of physical weightlessness, he managed to release a strand of inner Qi, using it to flip his body in mid-air and narrowly dodge the spear thrust aimed directly at his crotch.
Dong Zhe broke out in a cold sweat; had he reacted even a fraction of a second slower, his crotch would have been blown apart and his skull pierced clean through.
Before hitting the ground, Dong Zhe pulled out two bottles of Qi-Restoring Powder and swallowed them immediately to help his internal Qi recover faster at the dantian.
"Pfft! And he calls himself a great warrior of the male clan, how utterly shameless! He's actually resorting to Qi-Restoring Powder!"
Jin Sheng had sharp eyes and immediately spat out an insult.
For martial artists, although Qi-Restoring Powder was a medicinal aid used to replenish inner Qi, context mattered when taking it.
If one were out in the wilderness slaughtering savage beasts, no one would bat an eye no matter how much Qi-Restoring Powder was consumed, as it was merely a means to enhance a martial artist's combat capability.
However, during a duel to determine victory or a formal martial arts exhibition on a stage, consuming Qi-Restoring Powder was considered highly dishonorable.
Many regulated martial arts tournaments explicitly banned both participating parties from consuming Qi-Restoring Powder. This was because once practitioners took such powder, the battles would drag on endlessly, and it would severely compromise the fairness of the competition, turning it into a contest of wealth and medicinal potency rather than personal strength.
"Absurd!"
Dong Zhe suddenly spoke up, barking at Jin Sheng, "I am currently avenging my younger brother's murder at the hands of Chu Feng, so what methods are off-limits? Who wrote the rule that a martial artist cannot consume Qi-Restoring Powder when seeking vengeance? Did you write it?"
"Ha! Dong Zhe, the moment you chugged that Qi-Restoring Powder, you effectively admitted defeat. At least in the contest of inner Qi, you have completely lost to Big Brother Feng! And in terms of momentum, you are vastly inferior to him!" Bai Naizhao chimed in.
"Big Brother Chu, Dong Zhe is shameless! Since he can drink Qi-Restoring Powder, you should drink it too! Do you have any Qi-Restoring Powder on you? If not, I have some Qi-Restoring Golden Pills right here!"
As Jin Sheng spoke, she made to retrieve the Qi-Restoring Golden Pills from her storage pouch.
"No need, no need! Dealing with Dong Zhe does not require any Qi-Restoring Powder!"
Chu Feng smiled and nodded at Jin Sheng, while his footwork shifted continuously like wind skimming across water.
Roar! Roar!
Right at that moment, two beast roars echoed beside Dong Zhe.
Two snowy-white savage beasts, standing over ten feet tall and roughly the size of rhinoceroses, emerged from his storage pouch, stationing themselves on his left and right like a pair of beastly generals.
"Snow Tyrant Dragons!"
"It seems Dong Zhe is truly terrified of Young Master Chu. He's actually releasing the Snow Tyrant Dragons to aid him in battle, and he's brought out a mating pair right off the bat!"
"With one man and two beasts joining forces, I wonder if Young Master Chu can handle them?"
Several female warriors murmured among themselves.
Standing two zhang away, Chu Feng sized up the so-called Snow Tyrant Dragons.
Both of these Snow Tyrant Dragons were pure white as snow, similar in bulk to ordinary rhinoceroses, with three thick, sharp horns growing atop their heads and small, fleshy wings beneath their ribs, suggesting they possessed the ability to fly.
Moreover, the soles of their feet appeared light and nimble, clearly endowing them with formidable agility and evasive capabilities.
Chu Feng also noticed that one of the Snow Tyrant Dragons had a thick ruff of snow-white mane around its head and neck, marking it as the male, while the other possessed a clean neck, identifying it as the female.
Chu Feng smiled faintly. It was time to let his own Thunder-Unifying King Beast experience the thrill of battle as well.
Growl!
As he retrieved his storage pouch, Chu Feng heard the low roar of the Thunder-Unifying King Beast emanating from within.
This was clearly the Thunder-Unifying King Beast eager to come out and fight, emitting a growl driven by the desire and excitement for combat!
Growl!
The next moment, the Thunder-Unifying King Beast materialized before everyone's eyes.
"Ah, is this the legendary Thunder-Unifying King Beast?"
"The Thunder-Unifying King Beast looks so unusual! I thought it would be absolutely massive, but it doesn't look very big at all. Still, it must be exceptionally powerful!"
"Can the Thunder-Unifying King Beast really handle a pair of male and female Snow Tyrant Dragons?"
For a moment, the female warriors engaged in animated and excited discussions about the newly appeared Thunder-Unifying King Beast.
As for the male deacons, still recovering from their lingering fear, the sight of the blue-purple Thunder-Unifying King Beast filled them with even greater trepidation, wondering just how terrifyingly powerful this exotic beast might be.
"Chu Feng! Today is not a friendly martial arts spar; I am here to avenge my brother's murder. These two Snow Tyrant Dragons of mine are facing your Thunder-Unifying King Beast, so don't you dare accuse me of ganging up on you with superior numbers!" Dong Zhe shouted loudly at Chu Feng.
"Save your breath! Even if you weren't seeking vengeance for your brother, the fact that you previously sent men to intercept and murder me in the Great Snow Mountains means you were destined to become a ghost beneath my spear!"
With those words, Chu Feng once again deployed his Swift Sound Step.
Hum! Hum!
Yet another series of eerie sonic waves rippled outward.
Growl!
Those two humming vibrations acted like a bugle call for a charge. With a long roar, the Thunder-Unifying King Beast opened its jaws, crackling with wisps of thunderous energy, and spat out a bolt of lightning as thick as a human arm with a sharp screech.
Roar!
The male and female Snow Tyrant Dragons had been standing close together, but upon seeing the lightning bolt erupting from the Thunder-Unifying King Beast's jaws, they each leaped aside to evade it.
The female dragon possessed nimble footwork and narrowly dodged the lightning strike, but the male dragon was a fraction of a second too slow. With a sharp crack, its snowy-white fur was struck by the lightning bolt, and it let out a startled roar before freezing in place, completely immobilized.
"Ha! Big Brother Feng's Thunder-Unifying King Beast is truly the tyrant among beasts. With just a single breath, it subjected that Snow Tyrant Dragon to a lightning strike, leaving it on the brink of death!"
Bai Naizhao said with an enthusiastic expression.
Others might not know the might of the Thunder-Unifying King Beast, but Bai Naizhao had experienced it firsthand.
Back then, even the Flying Snow Horse—renowned among savage beasts for its ethereal agility—could not escape the Thunder-Unifying King Beast's assault, suffering the agony of clipped wings. How much less prepared was this Snow Tyrant Dragon?
After leaping away in fright, the female dragon landed fifty feet out. Instead of pursuing her, the Thunder-Unifying King Beast flashed over to stand before the rigid, motionless male dragon.
Slap! Slap! Slap! Slap!
Swinging left and right with lightning speed, the Thunder-Unifying King Beast used its short forepaws to strike the face of the male Snow Tyrant Dragon four times in the blink of an eye.
Crack! Crack!
With every blow landed by the Thunder-Unifying King Beast, the crisp sound of discharging lightning echoed through the air. As the fourth strike landed, the rhinoceros-sized male Snow Tyrant Dragon collapsed heavily to the ground.
Instantly, a strong odor of roasted meat filled the air.
The formidable lightning power unleashed by the Thunder-Unifying King Beast had charred the entire skull of the Snow Tyrant Dragon. Thick plumes of smoke rose into the air; its entire body remained snowy white, save for its massive head, which was pitch black.
Growl!
The Thunder-Unifying King Beast let out an excited cry, raised its sturdy hind legs, and stomped fiercely twice upon the body of the Snow Tyrant Dragon!