Chapter 6436: The Black Monstrous Beast Regains His Fighting Prowess

Inside the spirit formation gate, after a brief clash, the black monstrous beast scoffed, “Chu Feng, you can’t hope to beat me if that’s all you have.”

The black monstrous beast’s scales flared open, and the cicada calls echoed.

Chu Feng frowned. His face warped in pain, and his movements stiffened.

The black monstrous beast exploited this opening to thrust his black thorn into Chu Feng’s face.

Just as the black thorn was about to impale him, Chu Feng suddenly dodged. His spear suddenly moved at a much faster speed than before, surging forth like a bolt of lightning to strike the black monstrous beast.

The black monstrous beast hurriedly concentrated his defense, and only then did he barely block Chu Feng’s attack. Even so, he was sent flying a long distance as a result of the impact.

“How are you unfazed?”

The black monstrous beast quickly regained his balance and stared at Chu Feng in confusion.

It was apparent that Chu Feng had pretended to fall for his sonic boom to make him lower his guard. That trick worked, and the black monstrous beast was nearly skewered as a result. He would have fallen in defeat if not for his ability to concentrate his defense.

He couldn’t understand why his sonic boom didn’t work on Chu Feng.

“Elder, your earlier attack was a sonic boom, right? I can just cover my ears,” Chu Feng replied.

“Interesting.” The black monstrous beast laughed, knowing his sonic boom was nowhere that easy to deal with.

Chu Feng had indeed sealed off his ears, but not in a conventional sense of the term. Only someone with extremely precise control over their body, soul, and martial power could have pulled off a feat like that.

In other words, no one else could have replicated what Chu Feng had done.

“You’re more capable than I thought. There’s no reason for me to hold back then,” the black monstrous beast said with a smile as he continued his assault.

His fighting prowess recovered to the same level back when he was fighting against the new king and the others. He was indeed unharmed; he had merely lowered his fighting prowess to match Chu Feng.

The tables were immediately turned.

As they resumed trading blows, Chu Feng found himself struggling to fend against the black monstrous beast’s attacks. It was tough to even maintain his defense, let alone counterattack. The black monstrous beast was not only strong but fast as well.

“Elder, didn’t you say you’re weakened? You don’t seem weakened at all,” Chu Feng asked.

“I was weakened. But I recovered.”

But Chu Feng remained fearless.

He formed a hand seal, and a golden aura seeped from his finger and enveloped his body, shrouding him in the airs of an immortal. His fighting prowess surged.

“That...!”

Ye Xiancheng and his parents widened their eyes in shock. They could tell at a glance that was their Ye Immortal Clan’s hereditary martial skill—rank three God Taboo, Immortal Protection.

But that wasn’t all.

Another golden aura emerged from Chu Feng’s fingertip, but unlike the one before, it didn’t immediately form anything or shroud Chu Feng’s body. Instead, it morphed into divine runes that passed through Immortal Protection and seeped into Chu Feng’s legs.

Chu Feng’s movement speed increased, allowing him to deal with the black monstrous beast now despite the latter having reverted to his original fighting prowess.

“H-how is he able to...” Ye Xiancheng yelped with widened eyes.

That was also a Ye Immortal Clan’s hereditary martial skill—rank three God Taboo, Immortal Footwork.

“Could it have happened then?” Ye Xiancheng narrowed his eyes.

He suddenly recalled Chu Feng using a bizarre skill[1] that day that made him feel as if a part of his soul had been siphoned away. It felt terrible, but somehow, he emerged unscathed from it. He had asked Chu Feng about it back then, but the latter didn’t tell him anything.

As inconceivable as it was, Chu Feng must have stolen the martial skills he had painstakingly trained then.

“How does Chu Feng know our clan’s hereditary martial skills?” Ye Xiancheng’s parents remained confused, oblivious to the truth.

“Chu Feng has a powerful skill that can plunder other people’s martial skills,” Ye Xiancheng informed his parents via voice transmission, knowing it was one of Chu Feng’s hidden cards.

“What? He can plunder someone’s martial skill? How can there possibly be a skill like that?!”

Ye Xiancheng’s parents were appalled, but they had no choice to believe those words, given how impeccably Chu Feng was using their Ye Immortal Clan’s hereditary martial skills.

Chu Feng held Jade Immortal in his right hand to clash with the black monstrous beast while forming hand seals with his left.

A bead of golden light emerged from his fingertip and rose into the air, expanding to over tens of thousands of meters in diameter as it ascended. It didn’t take long for it to resemble a sun.

“Rank three God Taboo, Immortal Suppression.”

Ye Xiancheng and his parents recognized the martial skill right away. With this, Chu Feng had used all three of the hereditary martial skills Ye Xiancheng had employed that day.

Chu Feng harrumphed. “Rank three God Taboo, Immortal Suppression.”

The golden sphere suddenly exerted immense pressure. The black monstrous beast frowned, sensing that his fighting prowess had been suppressed.

The tables had turned. Chu Feng now held the upper hand.

“You’re simultaneously using three God Taboos? Interesting. But how long can you maintain them?” the black monstrous beast sneered.

He completely abandoned all offense and focused solely on defense.

Chu Feng, despite wielding the upper hand, was unable to breach his defense.

To make things worse, the incense stick was about to burn out.

“This isn’t good. That fellow is only defending now, and that’s obviously his speciality. He’s just buying time right now!” Ye Xiancheng was getting nervous.

Despite his low cultivation, he could still barely follow the battle with his parents’ help and the aid of the Ye Immortal Clan’s formation. He didn’t mind Chu Feng stealing his martial skill, for he only hoped for Chu Feng’s victory right now.

The outcome of this battle determined their life and death.

Even Ye Xiancheng’s parents, who were much more conservative in their mindsets, didn’t criticize Chu Feng for plundering their clan’s hereditary martial skills. On the contrary, they were worried and nervous as well.

“It’s a pity Chu Feng doesn’t know Formless Spearmanship, or else he could have breached that black monstrous beast’s defenses.” Ye Xiancheng sighed.

Both Immortal Protection and Immortal Footwork were built around Formless Spearmanship; they were the keys to bringing out Formless Spearmanship’s true prowess.

“Unlike martial skills, Formless Spearmanship requires the accumulation of experience to truly grasp its essence. It can’t be plundered so easily,” Ye Xiancheng’s parents said.

Sweat rained from Chu Feng. He kept glancing at the incense stick, which was on the verge of burning out, unable to maintain his earlier composure.

“Chu Feng, it looks like you won’t be bringing your friends out with you today,” the black monstrous beast scoffed.

1. Chapter 6364 - Chu Feng used Dark Plunder, the skill he incubated from the Immemorial Era’s Dao of Absolute Darkness. ☜